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Thunder Road and Film House Germany have snagged the film rights to the novel “The Detainee”, a thriller about an island where old people are exiled by the young for, as they see it, ruining society.
Grant Pierce Myers (“The Maze Runner”) is adapting. If successful, the film would be followed by two sequels.
The news comes from THR, who also had this news :
Set in the near future, The Detainee stands apart from recent glut of dystopian films by making the heroes older adults. The story follows “Big Guy” Clancy, who along with the rest of society’s “waste,” has been shipped to the island, a desolate outpost where satellites mete out instant punishment on those who break the rules or try to escape. Worse are the nights when fog prevents the satellites from working, and young gangs conduct terrifying raids. But when Clancy encounters a younger blind woman living in a secret network of underground tunnels, there is suddenly a chance for the elderly to fight back.
