Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” the bestselling book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, will be adapted to a movie.
The film will be adapted from the book by American director Ridley Scott and British documentarian Asif Kapadia, the Holllywood Reporter announced Wednesday.
The non-fiction book charts the course of the development of human beings from prehistoric man to present man. It originally was published as a textbook for Harari’s students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It is a book that changes how you see the world and our adaptation should do the same, to serve as a wake-up call for who we are, where we have come from and where we are heading,” Kapadia said in a statement.
JTA