'Twilight' author's 'Host' to become movie

Stephenie Meyer's first non-Twilight novel The Host will be turned into a movie, according to Variety.

Producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz have snapped up the screen rights to the book, which takes place in the near future and sees an alien called the Wanderer fuse with a dying woman to locate Earth's remaining humans.

Andrew Niccol will write and direct the movie. The producers were prompted to hire Niccol when they asked Meyer to name some of her favourite sci-fi films - Niccol's Gattaca and The Truman Show were in her top five.

"We wanted Stephenie to be involved in the adaptation and have her endorse and be part of the creative decisions," said Wechsler.