BLACK LIGHT to be filmed by producer MICHAEL DE LUCA in 2012!

Michael De Luca, the Oscar-nominated super-producer of THE SOCIAL NETWORK and MONEYBALL, has announced that he will produce the upcoming movie version of BLACK LIGHT, the high concept supernatural thriller novel written by Stephen Romano, in collaboration with writers from the SAW franchise. “The movie deal is really an exciting development for that project,” says Romano. “It’s totally cinematic, this idea. It’s about a haunted private dick specializing in ghost cases and his battle with some especially nasty bastards on board a high tech bullet train, so it was always a natural fit for Hollywood. We went in with the idea that it would make a killer screenplay. Actually, the project was an unproduced script at first. So the transition is natural and awesome. They’re now in search of a director, and I think it will most likely go to Sony Pictures. De Luca has his deal there. He read the book over one weekend and couldn’t out it down. He said, ‘guys, I love detective thrillers and I love trains—and you put ‘em both together with ghosts and demons!’ He did DRIVE ANGRY, which was another sort of genre-bender . . . but we’re really gonna up the ante here, with some super over-the-top action! It’s been a charmed project since I signed on to it in 2010. Kind of wrote itself, really, and it’s had its own life, ever since. Jesus, what a thought. I guess if everything goes well, we’ll be seeing the film sometime in 2013. I can’t wait to do the screenplay. It’s in my contract with those guys that I get to work with them on it, so that will be fun!”

To keep fan interested in the film, Romano commissioned a cool portrait of Buck Carlsbad, the film’s main character, who was inspired by “all the cool demon hunters of the past . . . and William Peterson from TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.”