Runelords:Variety reports that Story Island Entertainment, Origin Entertainment and Entertainment Business Group have acquired the feature film and game rights to best-selling fantasy novel series The Runelords, to develop as a potential feature franchise and videogame. The film is being adapted from the David Wolverton novel (under the pen name David Farland) by scripter Terry Kahn.

The first film is being prepared for a fall 2004 theatrical release, with the first role-playing game intended to hit retail shelves in time for the 2004 holiday season.

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