CRIMINAL MINDS Creator to Adapt Dean Koontz Novel at Fox

Jeff Davis, the creator of "Criminal Minds" will adapt the Dean Koontz novel "Strangers" into a one-hour drama at Fox, according to Variety.

"Strangers" tells the story of several different people, thousands of miles apart, from different walks of life, finding themselves struck by unusual fears and sudden phobias. A novelist in California suffers unbearable sleep terrors. In Boston, a surgeon's intense panic attacks threaten her career. A priest in Chicago dreads the RISE of the moon. An ex-Marine develops a paralyzing fear of the dark. They're all connected by a forgotten trauma, repressed memories now surfacing and leading each of them to one destination: a small motel in Nevada where a dark secret lies hidden-one that could change the course of humanity itself.

The project has been given a script commitment with a penalty attached by Fox. The show will be writen and executive produced by Davis, with Koontz and Josh Berman and Chris King of Osprey Productions also executive producing. Since Osprey is currently under an overall deal at Sony, the project is a co-production between FOX and Sony Pictures Television.

Davis previously created the long-running CBS procedural "Criminal Minds" as well as the MTV series "Teen Wolf."

Read the original article on Variety.