SNEAK PEEK: MANHUNTActor Harrison Ford will star in "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer", based on the best-selling novel by author James L. Swanson.
A tenative start date was originally scheduled for later this month.
Advance publishing rights to Swanson's novel were purchased for more than $500,000, considered a large sum for a debut work of non-fiction.
Walden Media, noted for "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" will produce.
Ford will play 'Boston Corbett', the killer of 'John Wilkes Booth', the assassin of US President Lincoln.
The "Manhunt" book debuted at No. 6 on The New York Times best-seller list, holding steady at No. 5, with a fifth printing of 200,000 copies currently in circulation.
"I wrote the book for myself," said Swanson, "so I am thrilled that people are responding."
Swanson's home is jammed with Lincoln memorabilia, including bronze busts of Lincoln dotting mantels and tabletops on the first floor, 'mourning' posters, various depictions of the assassination, a swatch from the bloodstained dress of 'Laura Keene' (the actress who cradled the dying Lincoln's head in her lap) and a lock of Lincoln's hair clipped at the time by Edwin M. Stanton, the US secretary of war.
Swanson also owns four of the original known 'wanted' posters offering $100,000 rewards for the capture of Booth and his co-conspirators.
