I've not read Sylvain Neuvel's The Themis Files so I had to look it up. According to Neuvel's own website, it's a global conspiracy thriller about what happens when we start to find a giant humanoid something buried beneath the Earth. My best guess is that this giant thing - a robot, a creature - was dismembered and buried in pieces for safety's sake. Whether that's for the safety of us humans or for the good of the aliens remains to be seen, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this all end in an action face-off between a humongous robot and hordes of flying saucers. Or, maybe my imagination is a lot more B-movie influenced than that of original novelist Neuvel. Sony have put a film based on the book into development and given the job of writing the screenplay to Spider-Man and Jurassic Park's David Koepp. Matt Tolmach, who was in charge of the Amazing Spider-Man series until that evaporated will be one of the producers. The lead of The Themis Files is a female scientist working as a physicist at the University of Chicago. It's bound to be a hotly sought after role if the project goes ahead though, like every other female scientist part in all of Hollywood, I expect they'll go to Jessica Chastain first. source - deadline