Screen Gems secures rights to young adult fantasy series 'Black City'
The first of Elizabeth Richards' books will be released in November
'Black City'
Screen Gems may have scored the next "Twilight"-style young adult fantasy franchise with "Black City."
The studio has has picked up the rights to develop a feature based on the upcoming first book in the series "Black City," by first-time writer Elizabeth Richards.
It take place in a city where ordinary humans and the supernatural "Darklings" live in two adjacent areas separated by a fortified wall. Echoes of "Romeo and Juliet" (and, of course, "Twilight") crop up when the half-blooded Darkling teenager Ash Fisher falls for the human teen Natalie Buchanan.
Screen Gems is currently searching for a screenwriter to adapt the material.
“Black City” will be released on November 13 on Penguin Young Readers Group's Putnam Juvenile imprint. "Black City: Phoenix" will follow in 2013, with several more books planned after that, giving Screen Gems plenty of material for a franchise if the first film proves a success on the level of the "Twilight" saga, the "Harry Potter" films or "The Hunger Games."
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