Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) will adapt Billion-Dollar Ransom, the forthcoming book by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski, into a movie. Deadline reported that the "action thriller, which will be published by Little, Brown and Company in September, follows five members of a billionaire's family, kidnapped at the same moment, from different locations--for the unthinkable ransom of a billion dollars."
Producers include Patterson for James Patterson Entertainment and 6th & Idaho's Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris, with 6th & Idaho's Rafi Crohn and James Patterson Entertainment's Bill Robinson and Patrick Santa executive producing. Amazon MGM Studios acquired the film rights to the book.