Lionsgate has officially won the bidding war over the film rights to the novel, “The Breach.” The deal is a package that include David Goyer as director. The film will be the big screen adaptation of the 2009 novel written by Patrick Lee.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing The Breach alongside Justin Rhodes who is writing the script.
The story centers on a corrupt ex-cop who is trying to get his life back in order when he discovers a crashed plane in the Alaskan wilderness. The first lady is among those dead in the wreckage. That sets off an adventure featuring a beautiful survivor, assassins, a secret organization, alien technology and an end-of-the-world scenario.
“The Breach” is the first novel in a trilogy. It is followed by “Ghost Country” and “Deep Sky.”
The plans to adapt the novel began last year when Goyer optioned the rights and began developing it independently with di Bonaventura. A studio bidding war began when Liongsate, Warner Bros., Fox, Relativity and Millennium showed interest in the project.
Lionsgate’s president of production Erik Feig and Geoff Shaevitz, Summit Entertainment’s president of production, will oversee the project for the studio.