Online store Amazon.com to become a movie production studio.

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Amazon.com has optioned the screen rights to Keith Donohue's best-selling novel The Stolen Child for its first feature-film venture, Variety reported. Amazon will move to secure a filmmaker and then a studio partner to turn the fantasy into a live-action feature.

The company isn't looking to co-finance the film, but does bring an intriguing variable to the table: A pledge to use the clout of its site as a marketing tool for the theatrical and DVD launch, the trade paper reported.

The novel by first-time writer Donohue combines literature and fantasy and covers issues of identity. A 7-year-old is kidnapped by forest-dwelling changelings, who replace him with a look-alike. The book tracks the changeling's attempt to meld into a family and the boy who roams the woods with a pack of feral children.

Source: Sci Fi Wire