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At least a dozen young adult novels – featuring girls who must fight werewolves, vanquish evil angels, discover why they are immortal, evade cannibals and, in one case, fall in love with a shape-shifting tiger -- have been scooped up by major studios and minor production companies. What makes these young adult novels even more alluring is the fact that their audience is not limited to teenagers. They are avidly read by large numbers of adult women.
This week, director Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man”) and Good Universe, a financing and production company formed last May, grabbed the rights to “Angelfall,” in which angels of the apocalypse create havoc on earth and 17-year-old Penryn must try to rescue her younger sister with the help of an enemy - the warrior angel Raffe who has been injured and is wingless.
“Daughter of Smoke and Bone,” won by Universal in a bidding war with three other studios, adds demons to its angels when the devil runs low on human teeth and Karou, an art student, is caught in the conflict between immortals.
Unlike Katness Everdeen of “The Hunger Games,” many of the teenage girls in these novels discover that they are not-quite human. In the “Trylle” trilogy, (purchased by Media Capital Rights), Wendy Everly turns out to be a troll princess, while the heroine of the five book series “Wicked” (DreamWorks) is the descendant of a powerful coven of witches who falls in love with a boy from a coven that has vowed to destroy her family. In “Origin” (Scott Pictures), the teenager who has been created to be immortal escapes from the lab to search for her origin. And in “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (Sony), Clary Fray, an ordinary teenager, discovers that she is a half-angel, one of the shadowhunters in an alternate New York City of werewolves, warlocks, vampires and demons.
3 Comments
Laer Carroll | April 16, 2013 6:51 PM
"Beautiful Creatures" should have been mentioned as an early-2013 massive failure. Made for $60 million, it barely cleared the same amount in worldwide gross.
Marie | November 17, 2012 1:47 PM
What about The Maze Runner?