Oil thriller pumped at Par
Studio sees it as a large-scale disaster pic
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Book, to be published by Simon & Schuster, was bought in a preemptive deal last fall, when Reiss had written only the first 100 pages. Protag is a federal investigator who tries to stop the spread of the virus. Hayter said the studio sees it as a large-scale disaster pic.
"The basic concept is similar conceptually to Roland Emmerich's 'Day After Tomorrow,' in that it is highly visual and exciting, but it is socially conscious with something to say," Hayter said. "We find out how disastrous it is to be so heavily vested in one resource."
