Thursday, April 30, 2015

More Book to Movie News!

Two new movie deals:

Sharon Draper’s ‘Out of My Mind’ YA Novel Set for Movie Adaptation


According to Variety, EveryWhere Studios and the Gotham Group (“The Maze Runner”) are teaming to produce a movie based on Sharon Draper’s inspirational young adult novel “Out of My Mind.”

The story centers on the journey of a young girl, wheelchair-bound and unable to communicate because of cerebral palsy, to discover her true potential. Draper’s book was recently named one of Time magazine’s “100 best young adult books of all time” and has sold more than 1.5 million copies.





’13 Little Blue Envelopes’ Movie In The Mail With Alloy & New Line

According to Deadline, Alloy Entertainment has landed rights to Maureen Johnson’s bestseller 13 Little Blue Envelopes and will develop the YA novel as a feature film with corporate sibling New Line Cinema. Black List scribe Harper Dill (Friend Of Bill) has been tapped to adapt the book, originally published in 2006 by HarperCollins. A sequel was published in 2014.



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