Peter Brett's The Warded Man Optioned for Film

The Warded Man, the first book of Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle series of novels, could be coming to a movie near you. Spike Seldin and Hans Futterman's New Harlem Partnership production company has picked up the rights to the popular fantasy novel, which was first published in 2008.

The Warded Man is set in Earth's distant future, when underground dwelling demons has pushed civilization back to the medieval times. The few remaining cities and settlements use ancient runes to repel the demons at night, but are unable to actually fight back against the demons.

However, a man named Arlen emerges from the desert, able to kill the demons with his bare hands thanks to strange runes tattooed on his skin. Joined by a herb gatherer and a fiddler, Arlen offers humanity a newfound hope...although not everyone is eager to join his crusade.

The Warded Man is the first book in the Demon Cycle, a series of books published by Harper Collins. To date, Harper Collins has published four books in the Demon Cycle, with a fifth book expected sometime in 2017.

According to Variety, which first broke the news, Brett is also writing the screenplay for the movie, while Seldin and Futterman look to partner with a studio to film and finance the film.

This is the second time The Warded Man has been optioned to film. Paul W. S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt, the producers of the Resident Evil series of movies, optioned the book in 2014 but failed to get the movie into production.