Justin Rhodes, Oct. 17 -- Pierce Brown's Red Rising novels have a film studio again, and this time they come with a director who has already built a dystopia for the screen. Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights, the Hollywood Reporter said in an exclusive published Friday, with Francis Lawrence attached to direct an adaptation of the first book, also titled Red Rising.

blank banner alongside Francesco Goedhuis, and Brown will executive produce.

Lawrence is the marquee name. The report says he is no stranger to dystopian science fiction after his many installments of The Hunger Games franchise, and that he last directed the Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk. What the report does not carry is a budget, a cast, a start date...