Mythology builds up 'Altered Carbon'

Mythology Entertainment, the recently minted banner produced by Kaira Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, has acquired feature rights to Richard Morgan's sci-fier "Transformed Carbon." Fischer, Kalogridis and Vanderbilt will produce, with Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer professional creating. Kalogridis, who composed "Shutter Island" and professional produced "Avatar," will adapt the novel along with David Goodman. The sale for "Transformed Carbon" also covers books in Morgan's "Takeshi Kovacs" series. "Transformed Carbon" was formerly setup with Warner-based Joel Silver. First launched in 2002, "Transformed Carbon" is occur the following where awareness is scanned and held in cortical stacks placed inside the spine, enabling humans to live physical dying through getting their recollections and awareness "re-sleeved" into new physiques. The story follows particularly trained soldier Takeshi Kovacs, who's downloaded from an off-world prison and to the body from the disgraced cop within the behest from the highly influential aristocrat who's convinced he was wiped out and wants Kovacs to uncover the truth. "?'Altered Carbon' is amongst the seminal items of publish-cyberpunk hard sci-fi available -- a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas from the products what this means is being human when information becomes encodable, like the human mind," mentioned Kalogridis. Mythology launched in November and contains closed deals round the John Bellairs' quantity of family-fantasy books, beginning with "The House Getting time within the Walls," which "Supernatural" creator Eric Kripke is adapting and drama series "The Lobotomist" at Cinemax with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, with Serta Thomsen writing the pilot and Robert Schwentke pointing. Shingle's being created on Antoine Fuqua's Suge Dark evening documentary for Showtime. Mythology is repped by lawyers Katz Golden Rosenman and McKuin, Frankel & Whitehead. Morgan is repped by Alan Nevins at Renaissance Literary & Talent regarding the Orion Posting Group and Carolyn Whitaker located in london Independent Books. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com