(Aw, crap, more vampires?)
In case you haven’t been around lately, Ridley Scott has been attached to Brave New World, an Alien prequel, a Monopoly movie, Nottingham, and probably a couple of other projects I can’t remember.  “Ridley Scott” is the hardest-working name drop in showbiz journalism.  Anyway, he’s mentioned again today for yet another project.  Yadda yadda yadda death-row vampires.

[Gladiator co-writer] John Logan has been set by Fox 2000 to adapt “The Passage,” the Jordan Ainsley vampire novel being developed for Ridley Scott to potentially direct.

In the novel, terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.

Ainsley — pseudonym for PEN Hemingway Award-winning author Justin Cronin — sold the book based on the first 400 pages and an outline, but the film adaptation awaited his completion of the book, which is nearly 1,200 pages. [Variety]

1,200 pages, huh?  That’s impressive, because I can barely manage a couple sentences about this.  Really, who gives a sh’t.