"ENDANGER"

My teen kidnapping thriller, ENDANGER, is being read by the STARZ network. I'm expecting good things.

The muse of this very smart, very suspenseful screenplay is one of my favorite actresses, Dakota Fanning. (Yeah, go ahead and snicker, I don't care. She rocks.) Very few child actors have exuded as much intelligence, poise and maturity. Some adults describe kids as "little adults" (which is as misguided as it is stupid, but moving on.) In Dakota Fanning's case, it's totally and completely true. She's a 30 year old woman who accidentally wandered into the path of a shrinking ray. Or, she's aging backwards, like Benjamin Button, only not...creepy. Moving on.

Dakota is probably too old now to play the young heroine, Olivia Fleet, who finds herself trying to outwit professional kidnappers. But who knows. At least she knows she's inspired at least one screenplay, and a guy who loves violent horror movies thinks she's ubercool.