Stone Village Prods. has netted a couple of Academy Award-winning scribes for two of its high-profile projects. has been tapped to adapt the Nicholas Sparks best-seller "True Believer," while is writing the adaptation of the remake of the 1955 heist film "Rififi." The supernatural love story "Believer" follows a writer for Scientific American who debunks myths and frauds but finds himself questioning his cynicism when he travels to a small town in North Carolina and falls for the granddaughter of the town psychic. "Rififi" tells the story of a career thief who, upon leaving prison, discovers his wife has left him and finds himself returning to crime with a planned jewelry store heist.

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