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REPORTER, 5/10/04 Writer Andrew Klavan is on a roll. 20th Century Fox has picked up his spec script "Gideon" for mid-against high- six figures, making it the third Klavan project to sell in as many weeks. Mike Macari and Niel Edelstein of Macari/Edelstein ("The Ring") will produce. "Gideon" centers on a young female artist who imagines evil figures so deeply that they cross over into her real world. The story starts out in a rural college town and then moves to the city. Robbie Brenner will oversee for Fox, with Klavan executive producing. "I've had a good month," Klavan said. "'Gideon' grows out of my love for Gothic art and romantic poetry. The romantics thought that the imagination was more real than the real world." Macari/Edelstein which is producing "The Ring 2" and "The Invisible" for spyglass, have worked with Klavan during the past several months to develop "Gideon". It's the second time the two parties have collaborated following the sale of an untitled Klavan script to Gold Circle last month. Macari/Edelstein will produce the feature, which revolves around a widow and her daughter, whose father comes back to haunt her. Gold Circle's Paul Brooks will also produce. "We get along so well and understand this type of material so well that I even broke my own rule of not showing anyone a script until it is ready," Klavan said about Macari/Edelstein. Then last week, Lions Gate optioned the right to Klavan's novel "Man and Wife," to which James Foley is attached to direct. Klavan will adapt. No stranger to the big screen, two of Klavan's novels have been developed into films. "True Crime" was adapted into a Clint Eastwood starrer for Warner Bros. Pictures, and "Don't Say A Word" was made into a Michael Douglas film for Fox. Known primarily for crime fiction, other Klavan titles include "Hunting Down Amanda" and "Dynamite Road." Macari/Edelstein's other credits include "No Place Like Home," directed by Amy Heckerling. "The Invisible" is a remake of the feature film from Oscar-nominated Swedish directors Joel Bergwall and Simon Sandquist ("Victor"). Klavan
is repped by Endeavor. From VARIETY, 4/29/04 Lions Gate weds Foley to 'Wife' Burns championed project, will oversee with Sacchi By Dana Harris Lions Gate Films has purchased the feature rights to Andrew Klavan's novel "Man and Wife," with James Foley set to direct. Klavan, who wrote the novel "Don't Say a Word" upon which that film was based, will adapt. "Man and Wife" follows a psychiatrist in an ostensibly perfect marriage in New England. His treatment of a mysterious young man begins to reveal his wife's hidden past. Book was published by Forge last year. Ithaka Entertainment's Braxton Pope and Andrew Weiner will produce with Klavan. Production is slated to begin later this year. Lions Gate vice chairman Michael Burns championed the project and will help oversee production with VP of development John Sacchi. Foley's credits include Lions Gate's "Confidence" and "Glengarry Glen Ross." Klavan's novel "True Crime" was the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. Los Angeles Times, 12/26/03 Character's in Andrew Klavan's "Dynamite Road" smoke, drink and cuss. Deal with it. by Mimi Avins [CLICK
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