Plum Pictures has snapped up the movie rights to The Innocent, the best-selling novel by Harlan Coben.
The company will be hoping that their adaptation of the book, which is currently in development, will hit the heights of the first Coben adaptation, last year’s critically-acclaimed French thriller, Tell No One.
The Innocent revolves around a middle-class guy from New Jersey who goes to prison after defending a friend in a drunken brawl (hey, just like Con Air’s Cameron Poe!). When he gets out, he finds that he can’t escape the shadow of his conviction. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like he’ll be hitching a ride home on a plane soon to be hijacked by the world’s most notorious criminals, but we’re sure that the plot that Coben did write will be suitably thrilling.
As for more news on the movie, it’s early days yet, so no writer is yet attached.