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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Lily Collins: "Odd Thomas"

Actress Lily Collins ("The Blind Side"), (the daughter of singer Phil Collins), has now been cast as the character 'Stormy Llewellyn' in director Stephen Sommers' upcoming thriller "Odd Thomas", based on the New York Times bestseller by author Dean Koontz.

Koontz' "Odd Thomas", published in 2003, derives its title from the protagonist, a twenty-year-old short-order cook named 'Odd Thomas'.

Following the success of the novel, the sequels, "Forever Odd" (2005), "Brother Odd" (2006) and "Odd Hours" (2008) were published, followed by graphic-novel prequels, "In Odd We Trust" and "Odd Is On Our Side".

"...'Odd', a short order cook in a California desert town, in a fateful 24-hour period, meets a suspicious-looking man in the diner, who is being followed by shadowy, 'bodach' spirit creatures who appear only during times of disaster.

"To gather more information about the man, Odd empowers his gift of 'supernatural intuition'.

"His soulmate 'Bronwen Stormy Llewellyn', manager of an ice cream shop and the only person that knows everything about Odd's abilities to "see the dead", helps him track the man down..."

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