One reason I love hearing about books becoming movies is that I get to move those novels way up on my “to read list.” That way I can go into the theater just a little smugger than the common man. (It also gives me a chance to scoff at the minute differences in the film version). One book just jumped very close to the top. Film School Rejects reported today that Warner Brothers has optioned Glen David Gold’s Carter Beats the Devil.
Carter Beats the Devil is the fictionalized version of a real man’s life. Confused yet? In his debut novel, Gold takes the real magician Charles Carter, a.k.a Carter the Great, and places him in a fictitious situation. The book takes place in 1920’s San Francisco where Carter, after performing a trick on President Harding, is forced to flee from authorities when the President mysteriously dies. The result is a work of fantastical historical fiction. Let’s hope the movie lives up to the book’s hype.
