Long ago in April Fox 2000 bought the rights to Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, with Angelina Jolie lined up to star. Now the planned film is moving ahead, with writer Kerry Williamson signing up to pen the script.
Williamson is pretty hot right now in Hollywood - she's been adapting the novel Fork In The Road for Alexander Payne to direct, and is also lined up to turn an article on a heist into a script for Darren Aronofsky's Breaking The Bank.
Let's hope she can work with a similarly talented director on the Scarpetta series, which sees medical examiner Kay Scarpetta solve crimes based on trace evidence on the bodies and lots of her own investigation (police procedure be damned!).
It's expected that Williamson will take elements from several of the 17 books for the script, rather than adapting one in particular, and it's hoped that this will become a franchise, given the massive popularity of the novels. First of all, of course, they have to get one film right, so keep an eye on this one moving forward.