As reported in Variety on 6/23/2004 Paramount and Lorenzo di Bonaventura have tapped Michael Tolkin to adapt Paranoia. Tolkin is coming onboard a year after di Bonaventura optioned film rights to the novel. Tolkin is best known for Hollywood-themed suspenser The Player, for which he adapted his novel of the same name and received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay. He co-wrote Changing Lanes and Deep Impact, and directed The Rapture. Di Bonaventura's projects at Paramount include Bad Girls; Detour; Memoirs of a Super Freak, Sleeping With Schubert and Shooter, based on the Stephen Hunter novel.