Legendary Pictures has bought the Marcus Sakey novel Brilliance, Deadline said.
In addition, they’ve attached Oz the Great And Powerful’s Joe Roth and Palak Patel to be the film’s producers, and Legendary’s Alex Hedlund will oversee it for Legendary.
Some are likening Brilliance to X-Men. The author, who wrote The Blade Itself and Good People, here focuses on an alternate present day scenario where one percent of children are born savants with special powers. Called “brilliants,” they are capable of exceptional things. A federal agent, who uses his skills to become a master hunter of terrorists, pursues a savant terrorist who intends to provoke civil war.
The book will be published in July by Thomas & Mercer/Amazon Books.
