Incarceron Movie!

**How exciting!! What do you all think? Has anyone else read the book? I just finished it! **

Hugh Jackman's film company, "Seed" clinched the rights to a film tipped to be the next Harry Potter.

The Daily Telegraph reports Jackman's company has clinched rights to INCARCERON, a young adult book by British author Catherine Fisher that has sat atop the New York Times Bestsellers list for the last three weeks since its debut.

Incarceron, billed as dystopian fantasy, was released on January 26 to acclaim from reviewers. The Times Of London extolled: 'One novel stands out above all others – Catherine Fisher's Incarceron. One of the best fantasy novels written for a long time.'

Variety reports Seed executive Allan Mandelbaum brought the project to Fox and Fox 2000's Rodney Ferrell flew to London to close the deal with Fisher's reps. John Palermo will produce the movie through Seed Productions, his Fox-based company with Jackman.

Fisher, who was born in Newport, Wales, has penned several mythic fantasy novels. Incarceron tells the story of a young boy who lives in a prison that is its own society.

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You can also visit:

Catherine Fisher's Site
Q&A with Catherine Fisher

Synopsis:
Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born...