Source: Variety

Lions Gate Films is gearing up The Truth Machine, optioning James Halperin's sci-fi thriller and setting it up with Ithaka Entertainment's Andrew Weiner and Braxton Pope along with Fritz Manger and Bill McDonald ("Rome"), says Variety.

Ron Shusett (co-creator of the "Alien" franchise) and George Lee Marshall ("Dark Side") will adapt the novel.

The Truth Machine examines what the world would be like after the construction of a perfect lie detector, with the character who invented the machine committing a crime and then submitting to his own creation.