Steven Zaillian has signed on to adapt Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel "
A Thousand Splendid Suns" and is attached to direct the Columbia Pictures drama.
The book, Hosseini's follow-up to "The Kite Runner," was published in May by Riverhead and debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for three months. The story revolves around two Muslim women, married to the same man, who foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.