EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has pre-emptively acquired rights to Oscar-nominated writer Eric Heisserer ’s debut novel Simultaneous . Producers on a planned film adaptation will include Heisserer and Carmen Lewis under Heisserer’s Chronology banner.

Published on Tuesday by Flatiron Books, the novel is a suspenseful psychological thriller revolving around a past-life regression therapist and an agent from the Predictive Analytics department of Homeland Security who become unlikely partners when they discover a phenomenon tied to reincarnation, uncovering a supernatural killer exploiting his own past lives.

Early response to the book has been positive, with Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo describing it as “a twisty, mind-bending thriller that will keep you guessing until the f

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