The Alchemist, the allegorical 1988 bestseller, is headed for the big screen.
Jack Thorne has been tapped to adapt the novel.
Variety reports that the Paulo Coelho novel is in development at Legendary Pictures and TriStar.
The novel, originally published in Portuguese in Coelho’s native Brazil, tells the tale of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd, who dreams of a great treasure buried beneath the Egyptian pyramids.
He sets out on a quest to find it, finding friendship, true love, and the titular alchemist along the way —but learns that the real treasure may have been closer than he thought all along.
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