EXCLUSIVE: Columbia Pictures and Matt Tolmach pre-emptively acquired film rights to The Diabolic,the just-published young adult sci-fi novel by S.
J. Kincaid. Simon & Schuster released it final week. Tolmach will produce through his Matt Tolmach Productions banner, with David Manpearl exec producing. Colpix exec veep David Beaubaire will shepherd, and with Tolmach exec Brad Zimmerman.
Novel is described as Red Queen meets The Hunger Games –– as the galaxy's most fierce…
Source: deadline.com