"Joel Fields is taking a "Detour." The writer has been hired by Paramount Pictures to turn the James Siegel novel of the same name into a feature, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. "Detour," which hit shelves in March, follows an American couple that travels to Colombia to adopt an infant. There, they and their baby are kidnapped by guerrillas, and the husband, pressed into duty as a drug mule, has to swallow 36 condoms filled with cocaine and deliver the contraband to New Jersey..." (full details)

"Paramount has acquired rights to the story of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old American relief worker killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber. Studio bought Ruzicka's life rights as well as a book that will be written about her by Jennifer Abrahamson. Ruzicka, one of the few American relief workers in Iraq, became a relentless advocate of civilians maimed and killed during the Iraqi and Afghanistan invasions. Often going door-to-door, she compiled lists of civilian war victims that shone a spotlight on the human costs of the war..." (full details)

"Walt Disney Pictures has snapped up film rights to Ally Carter's debut young adult novel "I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd Have to Kill You." Book is set in an isolated girls school outside Washington, D.C., where all the students are daughters of spies. The girls are secretly being trained to become agents themselves. Lead girl is the daughter of the school's headmistress. Trouble ensues when the daughter has a romance with a local boy..." (full details)

Thanks to 'KC'.