Monday, February 9, 2015

Book News: Lauren Oliver to Adapt 'Panic' for Universal

I know we don't do book news for Bibliophilia, Please very often, but I thought this was particularly exciting as Panic is a novel that I've read and reviewed here. The story broke on The Hollywood Reporter.
Sometimes the best screenwriter to adapt a novel is the novel's author herself.

Universal has followed this logic, as it just hired Lauren Oliver to pen the screenplay of the studio's adaptation of her YA novel Panic.

Universal picked up the rights in a bidding war in 2013 in advance of the book's spring 2014 release from Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book was a hot property due to the success of Oliver's previous novels, the New York Times best-selling Delirium trilogy and the 2010 hit Before I Fall, which was set up at Fox 2000.

-via The Hollywood Reporter

You can read the full story HERE.

About Panic



Title: Panic
Author:
Lauren Oliver
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: March 4, 2014

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes an extraordinary novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope.

Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.

Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.

Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game; he's sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he's not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for.

For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them—and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.

Already optioned by Universal Pictures in a major deal, this gritty, spellbinding novel captures both the raw energy of fear mixed with excitement as well as the aching need to find a place to belong.


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