Indie producer Angel Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the Thomas Trofimuk novel Waiting For Columbus.

Saskatoon-based Angel is also talking with Spanish producer KanZaman Productions (Kingdom of Heaven) about coming on board the movie adaptation as a co-producer.

Those negotiations include Oscar-nominated scribe José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries), now in line to possibly adapt the novel for the big screen.

Trofimuk’s mystery novel is set in a present-day Spanish mental institution, and features a love story between a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus and his psychiatric nurse, who fears the truth is much darker.