![]() ![]() to chase a possible haven in Grand Junction. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller - Google Books. When a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life might exist if he flies a bit further. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is a heavenly book, a stellar achievement by a debut novelist that manages to combine sparkling prose with truly memorable, shining, characters. Hig sometimes heads off in his 1956 Cessna, where he can fish and pretend things are how they used to be. He lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting ex-Marine. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity, with survivors being terrorized by roaming scavengers called “Reapers.” The protagonist is Hig, a pilot who survived the flu that killed everyone he knew, his wife included. Heller, Lily Brooks-Dalton and Brandon Scott Smith will be executive producers. New Regency, Smith and Cliff Roberts ( Emancipation, The Midnight Sky) will produce. ![]() ![]() Smith, whose script work includes The Boys in the Boat, The Revenant and Midnight Sky. EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, New Regency Pictures has preemptively acquired film rights to the Peter Heller bestselling novel The Dog Stars, a package that comes with a completed script by Mark L. ![]()
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