Deadline is reporting that Hammer Films has acquired the rights to the novel Boneshaker by Cherie Priest for a film adaptation.
Cross Creek Pictures and Hammer Films will co-produce the adaptation, while Cross Creek and Exclusive Media Group will co-finance.
John Hilary Shepherd (HBO's Nurse Jackie) is writing the screenplay and Hammer's head of production Tobin Armbrust is overseeing the project's development.
The steampunk sci-fi novel is set in an alternate 1880's Seattle, where the city has been walled in and a toxic gas has turned many of it's occupiers into "Rotters" more commonly known as zombies. A young widow is looking for her teen son in the underworld of Seattle while dealing with a criminal overlord, airship pirates, and heavily armed refugees.
Boneshaker was published in 2009 and it's the first novel in a series set in the period, which Priest has named "The Clockwork Century". The second novel Dreadnought was published in 2010, followed by Ganymede, which came out this past September.
The fourth book in the series Inexplicables is scheduled to be published in 2012 and Priest just signed a deal to pen a fifth novel titled Fiddlehead.
Cross Creek's president Brian Oliver descried the project as, "It's like Jules Verne meets Resident Evil and we're thrilled to have such a fun, commercial potential franchise in Boneshaker."
Cross Creek and Exclusive Media have teamed up on a few projects recently, including: Ides of March, the upcoming The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter series) and Ron Howard's Formula One film Rush which is set to begin shooting in the new year.
Boneshaker was nominated for a 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the 2010 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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