Warners buys privileges to autism memoir

Warner Bros. has acquired feature film privileges to Kristine Barnett's approaching memoir, tentatively entitled "Scattered Abilities," inside a pre-emptive deal. Book will inform the storyline of the mother and her 12-year-old boy, Jacob, and the journey from autism to genius. The son's first couple of years were spent alone however he required a liking to math and could recite the mathematical constant pi to 70 numbers at 3. He started attending college classes in Indiana at 8 and it has a math IQ that's been measured at 170. Deals for that book and film were with different 74-page proposal. Courtenay Valenti will oversee the work for the studio. It deal was discussed by Susan Kamil, senior Vice president, writer and editor in chief of Random House. The memoir is anticpated to be among the posting house's major game titles for 2013 and foreign privileges happen to be offered in 18 areas. UTA discussed with respect to Barnett and her posting agent Laurie Bernstein of Alongside Literary Prods. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com