Warners, Lin away and off to 'Otherland'

Warner Bros. will "Otherland," acquiring feature rights to Tad Williams' sci-fi book series and setting up it with Serta Lin to produce. Studio has attracted on John Scott III to script the film, using the four books launched by DAW-Penguin USA between 1996 and 2001 as "Capital of scotland - Golden Shadow," "River of Blue Fire," "Mountain of Black Glass" and "Sea of Silver Light." Story for your adaptation is positioned a hundred years afterwards and follows several unforeseen heroes who must escape an assassin and cope with epic digital cell phone industry's to resolve a conspiracy that expects to get rid of humanity. Seanne Winslow Wehrenfennig at Lin Pictures assists as co-producer and oversee for Lin Pictures. Lin's a producer on "An Online Detective: Wager on Shadows" which is in publish-production on period drama "Gangster Squad," starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Sean Penn, directed by Ruben Fleischer. He's also creating "Lego: the part of Resistance," written and directed by Chris Burns and Phil Master, with Warners arranging a 2014 release. Scott's zombie script "Maggie" made the most effective 10 in the 2011 Black List known as the very best title in the 2011 Blood stream List, the most effective 13 most-loved unproduced scripts inside the horror, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, and dark comedy/drama genres. "Maggie" is at pre-production with Henry Hobson pointing, and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Matt Baer, and Trevor Kaufman creating. Scott may also be adapting Isaac Asivmov's "Caves of Steel" for Fox, also with Hobson installed on direct. WME signifies the "Otherland" book rights. Scott is repped by CAA and handled by Trevor Kaufman. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com