New Plane Thriller Book FALLING Is Getting a Film Adaptation; Described as "Jaws at 35,000 Feet"
There’s a crazy new film project going into development titled Falling. The movie will be an adaptation of a novel that has been described as “Jaws at 35,000 feet.” The book was written by flight attendant-turned-writer T.J. Newman and she is also set to write the script for the film.
The project is set up at Universal Pictures and Working Title, and the story sounds pretty intense! Here’s a description of the story that the book tells:
You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
See! That’s a wild story that’s going to make for a good movie. Deadline notes, “Newman is the flight attendant who filled the down time on flights scribbling an aviation thriller, only to see her get rejected by 41 agents before Shane Salerno and The Story Factory signed her. Her career soared. Falling sold to Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster in a 7-figure pre-emptive offer, with another seven figures for deals in 30 countries.”
That’s pretty awesome for Newman. Her whole life has changed! She also wrote another book coming out titled Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421, which will also be shopped around Hollywood. In that story:
“A plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean six minutes after takeoff and is flooded after an explosion during evacuation. A dozen survivors sink in a sealed part of the aircraft as it perches precariously on an undersea cliff 200 feet below the surface. Among them is an engineer and his 11-year-old daughter. His estranged wife and the girl’s mother is part of the elite rescue team that races to save the passengers before their air runs out.
Do these sound like stories you’d be interested in watching as a movie!?