Finding Neverland Scribe To Adapt 'The Historian'

[Friday, December 2nd, 2005]
David Magee (Finding Neverland) is in talks to adapt Elizabeth Kostova's vampire-themed best-seller The Historian, accroding to the Hollywood Reporter.

In May, Sony Pictures Entertainment paid $1.5 million for Kostova's debut novel, which centers on a young woman who travels through Europe looking for her father who went missing while trying to find the grave of Vlad the Impaler. In the process, she battles nefarious vampires.

Set amid ruined castles and moonlit crypts, Kostova's 656-page novel weaves three story lines that deal with Dracula's Eastern European homeland.

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