DUNE 7 BLOG

Monday, May 22, 2006

Soul Catcher Movie Option

My father's 1972 novel Soul Catcher has been optioned for a movie by Bruce Bernhard of Cavu Films, Inc. (http://www.cavupictures.com/attractions.html) in Sherman Oaks, California. Mr. Bernhard has been interested in this project for more than a decade, and has held previous options on the book. Cavu Films is an independent studio responsible for critically acclaimed indie films such as "Silence of the Sea" and "Take Out." 

Soul Catcher is Frank Herbert's classic mainstream novel about a Native American who takes an innocent white boy hostage, intending to kill him in retaliation for all the innocents of his own race who were murdered by whites. When Frank Herbert was alive, there was a great deal of interest in this story as a movie, and he was contacted by Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman, among others.

Soul Catcher is currently out of print, but as with other Frank Herbert classics we are trying to find a way to republish it. If the movie gets made, we will have all the push we need.

-- BH