Angelology Novel in Bidding War for Film Rights

Getting published isn’t easy. The Publishing House has to take a chance on your product and they need a lot of faith in what you have before they put their stamp on it. Newcomer Danielle Trussoni`s Angelology seems to have sparked all sorts of faith landing her book deal and now the studios are fighting for it too.

Yahoo News reports:

“Angelology,” the debut novel of Danielle Trussoni, sparked a bidding war among several publishing houses before ending up at Viking. The screen rights chase began right after that deal was sealed, with Warner Bros. and Universal vying with Sony for the material.

The book was generating heat for its blending of biblical lore surrounding the fall of rebel angels and the Orpheus myth.

The story follows a young nun in upstate New York who unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group that studies angels, and a race of monster-like descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim.

Google-Fu reveals this wouldn’t be her debut, but still I wonder what all the excitement is about anyways?

From the sounds of the premise it doesn’t seem like much of a fair fight. In one corner we have a demon breed of creatures that are half angel and half human – and in the other corner… some book nerds?

Perhaps studying angels is a tough job requiring paramilitary skill sets, and these angel half breeds are taking particular offense to people sticking their nose into their half heritage.

Anyone read this book? Is it as good as all the bidding wars seem to imply?

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6 thoughts on “Angelology Novel in Bidding War for Film Rights

  1. Just finished the book.

    I’d rate it as good, not great but good.

    The entire time I was reading it I thought that Angelology could be a great movie, so I’m pleased to hear that a movie is in the works.

  2. I loved the book, and I bet is going to be a hit… The only thing is that the age of Evangeline’s mom does not fit with the time of her death, but anyway, the only one that I could thing should play her role is Liv Tyler or Megan Fox, which are to black hair women and angel face…

  3. I’ve just read the book but haven’t finished the last hundred pages. this is a true shocker in a way that it obliterate the whimsical depiction of angel lore. taking angels seriously is a joke but this novel can seriously connect the lore with the facts. I’ve been interested with the Enochian Angels and Milton. With the novel keeping the grandiose atmosphere intact while preserving intimacy within the character, this could be a great movie in the right hands. The Code movie was a sack. Hope it wouldn’t happen with this one.

  4. I haven’t read the book but I am all for any movie about spiritual warfare or any from of angelology or demonology. So with that being said I would mind a Inferno or Paradise Lost movie.

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