Film Rights for Jack Ketchum’s “Right to Life” Optioned
Producers Eric Shapiro and Rhoda Jordan have optioned the motion picture rights to Jack Ketchum’s novel Right to Life. Right to Life is currently available in a mass market paperback from Leisure Books, paired with the novel Old Flames. Right to Life centers on a pregnant woman who plans to get an abortion, but is kidnapped by a married couple before she can do so. The couple plans to hold the woman until the baby is born.
Eric Shapiro and Rhoda Jordan are presently making their feature film debut with Rule of Three, a thriller about sexual deviants that premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival in July, and is due for a U.S. premiere at Austin’s Fantastic Fest later this month, followed by an L.A. premiere at Shriekfest in October.
“Ketchum is one of the great madmen of the horror genre,” says director Shapiro. “Lots of artists fake or hint at danger, but his stories are truly dangerous. They go in deep.”
Adds Jordan, who’s penning the screenplay adaptation of Right to Life, “What’s great about this book is how it works as a good, scary horror story, but it also brings the abortion issue into light. The kidnappers carry the pro-lifer argument to its logical extreme.”
The producers are aiming to shoot Right to Life before the end of 2009.
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