Ron Howard replonge les mains dans l'imaginaire ! Le réalisateur de Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Solo: A Star Wars Story ou bien encore Le Grinch va adapter le roman de science fiction, Godfall, de Van Jensen.
C'est un premier roman pour cet auteur de bande dessinée qui raconte le crash d'un extraterrestre dans un petit village. Celui ci est particulièrement grand et ne passe pas inaperçu. Aussitôt les lieux grouillent d'agents secrets, de soldats, de scientifiques et de complotistes.
Chose assez rare dans le monde des adaptations, pour le moment le livre n'est pas paru. Il sera en librairie en VO le 1er novembre prochain. Il devrait s'agir du premier livre d'une série.
Aucune date n'est annoncée pour le film de Ron Howard.
"When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation—but the end doesn’t come. In fact, it isn’t an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed “the giant,” its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists—and a murderer.
As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists in tiger masks or struggling to control a town hall meeting about the construction of a mosque. As a series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes close to home, Blunt throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his old worldview with the town he now lives in—before it’s too late."