The film rights to Donna Tartt's best-selling novel The Goldfinch has been picked up by Warner Bros. and Brett Ratner's production company RatPac Entertainment.
Ratner, thankfully, only appears to be on board as a producer with Color Force's Ninja Jacobson and Brad Simpson. James Packer will executive produce for RatPac, Variety reports. Racheline Benveniste and Courtenay Valenti were tapped to shepherd the project for Warner Bros.
It's not really surprise someone snapped up the rights to The Goldfinch as it has won a Pulitzer Prize and is still on the New York Times bestseller list after 39 weeks.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tartt's third novel follows a 13-year-old boy who survives a museum bombing, but his mother doesn't. After her death he makes off with the Carel Farbitius painting The Goldfinch, which his mother loved.
The story then follows him as he grows older while being adopted by a wealthy family, moving to Las Vegas and falling into delinquency all while being obsessed with a mystery regarding the 1654 painting.
Warner Bros. previously acquired the film rights to Tartt's 1992 novel The Secret History.
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