'Innocent' novel lands Plum film deal

September 25, 2008 Plum Pictures is plumbing the literary and indie film world for its latest project: an adaptation of Harlan Coben's best-selling thriller "The Innocent." Another Coben thriller, "Tell No One," was recently transformed into one of 2008's few sleeper hits by writer-director Guillaume Canet and Music Box Films. Plum is hoping lightning will strike twice by optioning "Innocent," the tale of an ex-con whose attempts to rebuild his life after an accidental murder are thwarted when his wife is kidnapped, leading him into a byzantine criminal underworld.

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