Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Lullaby" has been optioned to Portland filmmakers Josh Leake and Andy Mingo.

"Lullaby" is the story of a newspaper reporter who discovers a lethal "culling song" and starts becoming an involuntary serial killer. It would be the third of Palahniuk's novels, after "Fight Club" and "Choke," to be made into a movie.

Mingo, the director of the digital media program at Clackamas Community College, made a short movie based on Palahniuk's story "Romance" that played at film festivals.

Leake is the founder and executive director of the Portland Film Festival. He produced the documentary "Glena," which premiered at Slamdance in 2014, and his documentary "Emptys" won first place at Tropfest New York, the world's largest short film festival.

Mingo and Leake have formed Mindpollen, a production company that will develop films, TV and videogames.

-- Jeff Baker

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