The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that DreamWorks has extended its option on John Wyndham‘s science fiction novel Chocky (British agency Pollinger, Ltd., handles Wyndham’s estate). THR goes on to question which company might actually produce the film, since the consensus in Hollywood is that DreamWorks will be leaving its current umbrella studio Paramount in less than a month.
Wyndham (1903-69), who also wrote The Day of the Triffids, wrote Chocky in 1968. It tells the story of “a boy who has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy’s father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy’s consciousness.”