Warner Bros. acquires SLEEPER CODE

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Source: Variety

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to SLEEPER CODE, a novel by Tom Sniegoski. Jason Keller will adapt the novel into a thriller for the studio.

In SLEEPER CODE, the lead character suffers from an extreme form of narcolepsy, forcing him to be home-schooled and to work out of the house. When his psychologist is murdered and his files go missing, he discovers he hasn't been sleeping at all.

SLEEPER CODE was published last month by Penguin. It is the first of a series of novels which will be refashioned as an adult franchise.

Peter Donaldson, Stacy Maes and Jay Sanders will produce the film.

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Comments/Responses

almostunbiased • Aug 02, 2006, 07:40am •

They just gave me the code with that synopsis.
It put me right out.

• Aug 02, 2006, 08:26am •

lol!

noblenonsense • Aug 02, 2006, 08:31am •

Oddly enough I'll see this movie. Probably not in theaters or the cheap theaters. I mean I won't pay to rent it. If someone else rents it then I will. Maybe if I put it on Netflix I will.

Or not...

• Aug 02, 2006, 11:02am •

come on now... this could go anywhere. it has me interested.

arker • Aug 02, 2006, 11:37am •

Don't tell me, he's part of some secret sleepwaking commando unit. Just don't wake him up while he's on a mission, I hear that's bad.

fft5305 • Aug 02, 2006, 12:33pm •

Wow. An original idea. Are they sure it's not a Russian or Korean horror movie?

• Aug 02, 2006, 05:19pm •

This may be a good book, and it may make a good movie, and I don't mean to offend any one on here with it, but narcolepsy is definitely one the funniest sleeping disorders. Everytime I think of it, I picture the chick from Deuce Bigalo.
And come on, the book has been out for a month! I hate when studios acquire rights to material so quickly just based on... actually I`m not sure why they decided on this. Some exec was probably reading it,had nothing better to pitch to his boss and bam, there ya go.
That definitely give the term "Sleeper cell" new meaning.

• Aug 04, 2006, 12:18am •

Does anybody actually READ a book anymore? I mean it was published LAST MONTH and now its a movie?!?!?!

How many YEARS did it take to turn an EPIC like LOTR into a movie (I know they couldn't have done Lord of the Rings justice 40 years ago) but seriously, now they must send the first print off the pressess to a movie developer...

What do they mean by ADULT FRANCHISE? Softcore porn? That's ok...

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