I love keeping up with YA novels soon to hit the silver screen.
‘Blackbird’ YA Novel Near Lionsgate Deal
Lionsgate is in negotiations to acquire the YA novel Blackbird from author Anna Carey in a competitive situation and is talking with Danny Mackey
to pen the adaptation. If the deal makes it will be the latest YA
book-to-film play from the studio that has reaped such enormous
windfalls for Summit’s The Twilight Saga and its own The Hunger Games. Alloy Entertainment would produce based on its book series.
Blackbird was published in September by HarperTeen. Written in
the second person, its follows a young girl who wakes up on the tracks
of the Los Angeles subway with no memory; a tattoo on her wrist of a
blackbird and a code; and a backpack containing clothes, $1,000, a phone
number and instructions not to call the police. The only thing she
knows for sure is that people are trying to kill her, and a thrilling
game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
