‘Dog Days of Summer’ director Mark Freiburger has been hired to co-write the screenplay adaptation of “The Trial”, based on the best selling novel by Robert Whitlow. The film will go into production in early 2009 and will be directed by Gary Wheeler. In June of 2008, 20th Century Fox released “The List” starring Malcolm McDowell, Hilarie Burton & Will Patton, which was also directed by Wheeler and based on the Robert Whitlow novel of the same name.