In an industry where remakes and adaptations are getting announced every hour or so it’s hard to believe Dean Koontz’s popular novel ODD THOMAS hasn’t found it’s way to our pages yet. Well folks, obviously that changes today!
The folks over at Production Weekly’s Twitter recently hit us with the following ‘tweet:’
Stephen Sommers is eyeing to direct his adaptation of Dean Koontz’s popular Odd Thomas book series.
What does this mean exactly? Well that Stephen Sommers is eyeing to direct an adaptation of Dean Koontz’s ODD THOMAS, that’s what! Before we get into your opinions on this whole ordeal let me hit you all with the details on ODD THOMAS. The novel franchise spans six installments including a couple graphic novels: ODD THOMAS, FOREVER ODD, BROTHER ODD, ODD HOURS and graphic novels IN ODD WE TRUST and ODD IS ON OUR SIDE. So what’s the rundown on this little diddy? Check out the plot to ODD THOMAS:
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo’s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it’s different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world’s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares—and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.
Sounds good to me. So what do you guys think? You down for Sommers tackling this one or would you like to see someone else bring ODD THOMAS to the big screen? Mind you the writer/director isn’t signed yet but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. Hit us with your thoughts below and keep it here for more ODD THOMAS news as we hear it!
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