Variety reports that Orson Scott Card’s novel Empire is being adapted for movie production. Joel Silver will be producing the film for Warner Brothers and Silver Pictures; Oren Moverman is doing the adaptation. Moverman most recently co-wrote the Bob Dylan movie I’m Not There with director Todd Haynes.
Card description of Empire, from his web site, is: “The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.
“The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia foot soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons, and strategic geniuses of their own.
“When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?”
Warner Brothers is also working on Card’s Ender’s Game, possibly to be directed by Wolfgang Petersen.