Posted: Tue., Apr. 26, 2005, 9:00pm PT

Disney gets 'Cabin' fever

Mouse feels the 'Pressure' on pic

Disney has grabbed book and movie rights to Entertainment Weekly scribe Josh Wolk's still-unfinished nonfiction book "Cabin Pressure" in a preemptive deal worth $500,000 against $1 million.

Mouse House's Hyperion imprint bit on a book proposal by Wolk, a Hollywood-based senior writer for EW. Touchstone Pictures then optioned the story for film.

"Cabin Pressure," based on an article Wolk wrote for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, is about his experiences taking time to go back to summer camp in the months before he got married. He had been a camper and a counselor at the camp many years before.

"I thought of those as the most idyllic and problem-free times of my life, so it was my last leap into childhood before the official start of adulthood," Wolk said.

"Cabin Pressure" will be Wolk's first book.

No producer has been attached yet. Karen Glass and Josh Simon will oversee development for Touchstone.


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