Claim: The Strain is on a screen.

Chuck Hogan -LRB- born August 4 , 1967 -RRB- is an American novelist , screenwriter , and television producer . He is best known as the author of Prince of Thieves , and as the co-author of The Strain trilogy with Guillermo del Toro . Alongside del Toro , Hogan created the television series The Strain -LRB- 2014 -- present -RRB- , adapting their trilogy of vampire novels .   Hogan also wrote the crime novels The Standoff -LRB- 1995 -RRB- , The Blood Artists -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , The Killing Moon -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , and The Devils In Exiles -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , and the screenplay for the war film 13 Hours : The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi -LRB- 2016 -RRB- .   Prince of Thieves -LRB- 2004 -RRB- was adapted into Ben Affleck 's Academy Award-nominated film The Town -LRB- 2010 -RRB- . The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King .