Thompson nabs rights to 'Thunderstorms'
William Boyd novel due out in September
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Thompson will develop the project via his Origin Pictures with BBC Films. Boyd will adapt his own novel, a thriller set against a drug-testing conspiracy in which a man is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
"It's a hugely exciting proposition and very rare to come across a big London-set thriller that is both sophisticated and unpredictable in equal measure," said Thompson.
Boyd has written screenplays for Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin" biopic, starring Robert Downey Jr.; Bruce Beresford's "A Good Man in Africa"; and TV skein "Armadillo." Latter two were adaptations of his novels.
