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02/11/2004
Hanks buys option on DuPrau's City of Ember
Tom Hanks and his Playtone partner Gary Goetzman have bought the film rights to Jeanne DuPrau's young adult novel The City of Ember, according to ComingSoon.net.
The book is a futuristic sci-fi fantasy adventure, which describes how Earth's citizens have moved to underground cities as the planet's atmosphere is too toxic.
As the lights of the city begin to fail, its saviours are a pair of teenagers - Lina Mayfleet has found a puzzling document, and Doon Harrow has made discoveries down in the Pipeworks.
DuPrau has written three novels - including a sequel to The City of Ember called The People of Sparks - six books of non-fiction, as well as many essays and stories.
This Christmas will see the release of Hanks and Goetzman's film adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express.
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