Robert J. Sawyer reports that Snoot Entertainment in Los Angeles has renewed its option on film rights to his Hugo- and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft,” which was first published in Mike Resnick and Catherine Asaro’s anthology Down These Dark Spaceways from the Science Fiction Book Club. “And, I’ve got to say, I love dealing with these guys. The check showed up a month in advance of the renewal date, without any prodding. True professionals.”
“Identity Theft” is in pre-production, under the working title Talk Talk, and is described by the New York Times thus: “The film Talk Talk concerns a private eye working on the planet Mars. He is hired to find the missing spouse of a sultry woman.”