Does anyone remember the indie-rock band Stellastarr* who were once touted in the whole New York indie-rock comeback in the wake of the Strokes? Well, the band didn’t really amount to much commercially, but their frontman, singer/guitarist Shawn Christensen might have other aspirations anyhow. The Stellstarr founder just sold his spec script called, “The Karma Coalition,” do a subsidiary of Warner Bros. called Lin Pictures.
No, it’s not about a struggling indie rock band in Brooklyn, the story focuses on “a professor who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a corrupt detective after he’s told his dead wife of five years might still be alive. He uncovers the existence of a secret organization responsible for faking her death but suffers the consequences of that knowledge,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Who knew bands that sounded like a cross between Jane’s Addiction and The Killers were such aspiring thriller writers?