It’s a wonder there are any young adult books left on the shelves the way that Warner Brothers has been snapping them up.
The latest to fall into the giant maw of the studio is Tom Sniegoski’s Sleeper Code. But the studio has big plans for the book (insert evil cackle here) – instead of looking for the next Harry Potter, Warners will turn the story into an adult, Bourne Identity-alike thriller.
Jason Keller has been signed to adapt the story, which has our hero suffering from an extreme form of narcolepsy (a sleep disorder causing random bouts of snoozing, for anyone who dozed through biology at school). He’s home-schooled and barely leaves the house, but when his shrink is offed and important files go missing he discovers that – surprise! – he hasn’t been sleeping. He’s been… well, the plot description sort of finishes after that, but we’re guessing he wasn’t a secret macramé fan.
There’s no director or cast attached yet.