Stephenie Meyer's 'The Host' movie making progress

'The Host' by Stephenie Meyer - Hatchette Books

There's a chance that The Host (a film based on Stephenie Meyer's sci-fi novel of the same name) could be filming next year, according to Deadline Hollywood.
"Steve Schwartz tells me that Andrew Niccol is working on the third draft of a screenplay which he’s writing in close consultation with the author."
It seems that, much like with the Twilight series scripts, Stephenie Meyer is heavily involved in the pre-production process for The Host.
The Host, readers know, is a pretty long adult science fiction book that has a great deal of mystery and lore as well as a love story element incorporated into it. Bringing the story to film will be no picnic, but with all of the experience Stephenie Meyer has in helping her books become movies, there's no doubt she'll see it gets done properly.
Deadline also reports that there's no studio attached to the project just yet but that producers don't foresee any trouble in that arena - mainly thanks to the popularity of the book's author.
Interestingly enough, the route that was taken to choose writer Andrew Niccol was elucidated even further by the article as well.

Schwartz said the search went like this: “We asked Stephenie what her favorite science fiction movies were, and one of them was Gattaca,” he sald. “We spent time with Andrew, listened to his vision, introduced Andrew to Stephenie and she responded. There is very good chemistry in this group. Stephenie is a very smart collaborator, and she had an intuitive strong hunch he would be the right guy. Based on the script we’ve seen, we think she was right. We’re thinking this will be shot in early 2011."

Despite the pending production start date, there has been no word as to who will be cast for the film.