Way back in March, we told you that Fox 2000 had won a bidding war over the rights to British Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel Incarceron, written by Catherine Fisher. The novel was first released in the UK in 2007 but just hit the US a few weeks ago, and earned a spot on the New York Times’ best seller list.
Now, Deadline reports that Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Abduction) has signed on to play Finn in the sci-fi adventure film. Finn is a young lifelong resident of Incarceron, which is a fully self-contained prison society. In the book, Finn meets the daughter of the Incarceron warden, who is housed in her own prison which resembles the 17th Century. When they find a mysterious key, and learn about the only man to ever escape the prison, they hatch their own plan to escape.
No director is yet attached to the project.
Check out the book trailer and official synopsis below. If the story strikes your fancy, you can head over to amazon and pick up a copy of the book HERE.
Book Trailer: Incarceron
Official Book Synopsis :
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside—she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye, and escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know. Because Incarceron is alive.
Imagine a living prison so vast that it contains corridors and forests, cities and seas. Imagine a prisoner with no memory, who is sure he came from Outside, even though the prison has been sealed for centuries and only one man, half real, half legend, has ever escaped. Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires. One inside, one outside. But both imprisoned. Imagine a war that has hollowed the moon, seven skullrings that contain souls, a flying ship and a wall at the world’s end. Imagine the unimaginable. Imagine Incarceron.
Fisher’s sequel to the critically acclaimed Incarceron is entitled Sapphique, due out in the U.S. this month.
Incarceron is slated to hit theaters in 2013.
