Resident Evil producers Paul W. S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt have picked up film rights to Peter V. Brett's debut fantasy novel The Warded Man, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Anderson is attached to direct the story, set in an undetermined future where mankind is beset by nightly attacks from demonkind and has been thrown back into a feudal state.
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Robert Knepper, who was originally signed for six episodes of NBC's Heroes, has been upped to a regular cast member, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Knepper's character, Samuel, is the charismatic but evil Earth-moving ringleader of a traveling carnival who recruits people with special powers for a mysterious purpose.
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