I’d say that Plum Pictures are one of the regular indie film production companies to tap into well of literary properties and THR reports that the NY-based co. will work on an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s 2005 novel. Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin will produce and develop The Innocent which tells the storyline would see an ex-con whose attempts to rebuild his life after an accidental murder are thwarted when his wife is kidnapped, leading him into a criminal underworld.
As pointed out in the trade, Coben (who to date has written about twenty books) saw his 2001 Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) be adapted for the big screen and Chicago-based foreign film distributor Music Box Films have made a good chunk of change with the U.S release of the thriller which has much of the same elements as The Innocent: kidnapping, murder. I finally caught the film in a mid-afternoon screening earlier this week at the Film Forum and there was a good number of people to see the picture. Not bad for a subtitled film which was released all the way back on the 2nd of July.
