Par takes 'Detour'
Studio nabs adoption thriller for di Bonaventura
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Paramount Pictures has bought screen rights to the James Siegel novel "Detour" for Lorenzo di Bonaventura to produce.
Di Bonaventura had the inside track on the material because he is producing the screen version of Siegel's novel "Derailed" for Miramax Films.
That pic has Clive Owen set to star and Mikael Hafstrom directing a Stuart Beattie-scripted adaptation. That was the first novel by Siegel, who like James Patterson was an ad agency honcho when he began writing thrillers.
The taut prose and tight plot of "Detour" got the attention of movie rights buyers in Gotham, where Siegel's dealmaker, Richard Pine, is based. Par's lit office was among them. The studio, led by exec veep Brian Witten and production prexy Donald De Line made the deal.
The thriller concerns a couple who find peril when they travel to Colombia to adopt a baby. Before they know what hit them, the child has been switched, the woman is kidnapped by drug dealers and the husband is pressed into duty as a drug mule.
Di Bonaventura recently wrapped the Keanu Reeves starrer "Constantine," the first film he produced after leaving his post as Warner Bros. production prexy.
