Intrepid Pictures has purchased Dave Kalstein's sci-fi thriller novel "Prodigy" and hired him to adapt it into a screenplay, with production targeted for next year reports Reuters.
The $20 million Rogue Pictures release is set in the near future, centers on an elite prep school that promises to turn teenagers into geniuses through a drug and diet regimen for a hefty half-million-dollar tuition.
When several alumni turn up dead, the school's impoverished valedictorian, on scholarship, is assigned to investigate the murders, leading him to a fellow student who might be the victim of a cover-up.
