As the red curtains finally closed in for the vampires of The Twilight Saga, Entertainment Weekly revealed that LD Entertainment has bought the film rights for the movie adaptation of Becca Fitzpatrick's bestselling YA novel, the Hush Hush Saga. It was also reported that the Greek creator Patrick Sean Smith would be the one to handle and write the screenplay for the first installment.
Hush, Hush tells the story of Nora Grey, a 16-year old high school student who happens to caught the attention of his dark, enigmatic biology partner Patch Cipriano. But as she grew closer to him, weird things started to happen, hallucinations and weird intuitions that seemed to be coming true. Later on, it was revealed that Patch wasn't the typical bad boy next door but was a fallen angel, sent out to kill Nora because of her odd bloodline and her connection to the Nephilims so he could go back to heaven. However, Patch fell in love with Nora and couldn't have the strength to kill her thus that's when other angels where sent to finish the job instead.
After the Twilight Saga's massive blockbuster movie adaptions, Hollywood has been trying to create the perfect YA novel film adaptation to follow its success. Unfortunately though, movie adaptations like the Beastly and the Red Riding Hood didn't receive as much warmth to the couch potatoes. Now, another YA novel in the same genre as Twilight but featuring fallen angels instead of vampires will take a shot and see if they have the guts to receive or even exceed its popularity.
"I'm really excited that the movie rights for the Hush, Hush Saga have been optioned by LD Entertainment," said Becca Fitzpatrick in her official website. "I have entered into an agreement with a production company (LD Entertainment), allowing them to engage in development and production activities (such as commissioning a script) based on the book(s)."
Seemingly overwhelmed by the film adaption after the recent release of Hush Hush's last book, Finale, Fitzpatrick couldn't hold back her joy. "It's a big month for me. I'm just trying to handle one thing at a time."
"Fans of the book have been clamoring for a movie since 'Hush, Hush' debuted, and I'm thrilled to let them know that the film rights have sold to LD Entertainment. It's exciting to think that Patch and Nora's story will be brought to life on the bigscreen," she stated in the Chicago Tribune.
The casting process has not started yet at the meantime but Fitzpatrick has two actors in mind for the lead roles, giving the names of Steven Strait for the role of Patch and Phantom of Opera's Christine, Emmy Rossum, for the role of Nora Grey. But since that's impossible, the author talked how she hopes the lead role would be for "someone who hasn't been discovered yet."
Sources: EntertainmentWeekly | ChicagoTribune
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