The YA audience of book fanatics and moviegoers still prove to be a particularlu viable source for the people over at 20th Century Fox and Temple Hill Entertainment. Their current success with last year’s The Maze Runner, has become a thing with a sequel on the way this September, and with this, they’ve now taken it upon themselves to pursue another live-action venture – this time with author Marie Lu’s late 2014 Putnam Juvenile publication, The Young Elites.
THR reports that Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing the film for Temple Hill, set in a time when a rampant disease called the “blood fever” which transforms some of its victims, even granting them special powers and gifts. Some of these survivors become known as the Young Elites, protected by a secret society from the Inquisition Axis, including Adelina Amouteru, a silver-haired, one-eyed scarred woman whose abilities are discovered to be unlike anything anyone has ever seen.
Fox is aiming to turn this one into a trilogy, although it could be another 3.4-part franchise much like Lionsgate’s successes with Hunger Games and The Divergent Series. At any rate, Lu has become an asset with at least two of her works being optioned for at the studio level, and in the particular case of The Young Elites, it appears there will be no shortage of female-centric sci-fi/fantasy YA fanfare for as long as the audience demands it.
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