Gary Oldman, who starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, and longtime manager/producer Douglas Urbanski have signed a deal with the Simon & Schuster/Atria Publishing label Emily Bestler Books for Blood Riders, reports Deadline.
Oldman and Urbanski will be writing the novel that tells the story of a mysterious man fleeing a curse in a town that the gold rush left behind.
The intention is for the book to be published spring 2016, and Bestler acquired world rights.
Urbanski was spare on describing the plot, but said there is a strong protagonist who carries a curse, explains the site. He said plans haven’t solidified yet on setting it up for a movie of TV project. “First concern is to make sure the book comes out and is really good and we are planning a series of three of them,” Urbanski said. “The first one ends leaving you needing to know what becomes of Magnus, the hero who had a curse placed on him by a vampire.”