Mythology accumulates 'Altered Carbon'

Mythology Entertainment, the lately minted banner created by Kaira Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, has acquired feature privileges to Richard Morgan's sci-fier "Changed Carbon." Fischer, Kalogridis and Vanderbilt will produce, with Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer professional creating. Kalogridis, who composed "Shutter Island" and professional created "Avatar," will adapt the novel together with David Goodman. The offer for "Changed Carbon" also covers books in Morgan's "Takeshi Kovacs" series. "Changed Carbon" was formerly setup with Warner-based Joel Silver. First released in 2002, "Changed Carbon" is occur the next where awareness is scanned and saved in cortical stacks inserted within the spine, permitting humans to outlive physical dying by getting their reminiscences and awareness "re-sleeved" into new physiques. The storyline follows specifically trained soldier Takeshi Kovacs, who's downloaded from an off-world prison and in to the body of the disgraced cop in the behest of the highly influential aristocrat who's convinced he was killed and wants Kovacs to discover the reality. "?'Altered Carbon' is among the most seminal bits of publish-cyberpunk hard sci-fi available -- a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of the items this means to become human when information becomes encodable, such as the human mind," stated Kalogridis. Mythology released in November and it has closed deals around the John Bellairs' number of family-fantasy books, starting with "The Home Having a Clock in 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 produced on Antoine Fuqua's Suge Dark night 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 with respect to the Orion Posting Group and Carolyn Whitaker based in london Independent Books. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com