Warner Bros. is getting into the “Otherland” business, the series of sci-fi novels by author Tad Williams. The studio has tapped screenwriter John Scott III to adapt the first film and Dan Lin to produce.
Published between 1996 and 2001, there are four entries in the book series, including “City of Golden Shadow,” “River of Blue Fire,” “Mountain of Black Glass” and “Sea of Silver Light.”
Story for the adaptation is set 100 years in the future and follows a group of unexpected heroes who must escape an assassin and make their way through epic digital worlds to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to destroy humanity.
Besides “Otherland”, Scott is also pounding away at Isaac Asivmov’s “Caves of Steel” for FOX. Like most writers who get work in Hollywood, Scott had one of his scripts show up on the Black List, the list of supposedly the “best” unproduced screenplays that everyone talks about.
