DreamWorks has acquired rights to the science fiction novel "Chocky" by author John Wyndham, for Steven Spielberg to direct as his next feature film project.Premise of "Chocky", published in 1968, focuses on a boy with an imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy's father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy's consciousness.
DreamWorks picked up film rights from Pollinger Ltd., the U.K. agency that handles the literary estate of the late author whose official name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris.
In 1984 a children's science fiction television drama based on the novel was shown on ITV in the UK...
