You know what my favorite part about the adaptation epidemic in Hollywood is? When studios option movies based on works that haven’t even been released yet.
Deadline reports that Jonathan Levine, best known for the coming-of-age pot comedy The Wackness, has signed on to direct Legend, a futuristic sci-fi movie based on the soon to be released novel by Marie Lu. According to Lu’s official site, Legend goes a little something like this:
LEGEND takes place in a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations. It tells the story of a famous 15-year old boy criminal and the 15-year old girl prodigy hired to hunt him down. When their paths cross, the truth they uncover together will become legend.
You’ve got to love with it when they use the book title to describe what happens. I’m also going to assume there will end up being some sort of romance, or else teenagers wouldn’t read the book or see the movie. Hell, I’m afraid they won’t anyway because it lacks vampires or nerds who fly on brooms.
The book version of Legend will hit stores November 2011, so if any of you have a lot of time on your hands, pick it up and let us know if it’ll make a good movie. If you remember by then.
Any interest in Legend, or does it just sound like another generic young adult novel?