Stone Village Pictures has acquired film/publishing rights to Russian author Alexander Belyaev's novel "Amphibian Man."Stone Village head Scott Steindorff will produce the romantic adventure drama with Jenia Kokotuha, who brought the project to the company.
"Amphibian Man" follows an American surgeon living in the Amazon who gives his son shark gills to survive a fatal respiratory disease. The young man's underwater life is complicated when he saves a local fisherman's daughter from a shark attack and romantic feelings surface between them...
A Comic book/graphic novel adaptation is also being planned through the Stone Village imprint, handled by Intellectual Property Group's Joel Gotler...
