Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' Sells Movie Rights to Warner Bros., RatPac — hollywoodreporter.com

Warner Bros. and RatPac Entertainment have closed a deal to adapt Donna Tartt's popular novel The Goldfinch. Nina Jacobson, who brought the project to Warner Bros., and her Color Force production company are producing. Brad Simpson from Color Force will produce along with Brett Ratner (whose latest directorial effort, Hercules, is currently in theaters). James Packer is executive producing. Goldfinch centers on a 13-year-old boy who loses his mother in a museum bombing, steals a painting (The Goldfinch, painted by Carel Fabritius in 1654)  and then spends his adulthood trying to unravel its mystery. Along the way he gets adopted by a wealthy Park Avenue family, moves to Las Vegas, befriends a colorful Ukrainian, binges on drugs and enters the antiques business with another bombing victim's partner, and chases the mystery of the painting and his family’s past to Amsterdam.

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