Paying more than $1 million against close to $3 million, Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures has purchased the film rights to Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel "Love in the Time of Cholera." Russell and Steindorff pursued the rights for two years before they persuaded the author to license the film rights by promising to stay true to the essence of the book. Steindorff, who produces, will now look for a writer and director so he can package the project before submitting it to studios and financiers.

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