3:49 pm - 04/09/2012
'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Is Writing A YA Trilogy
After cutting his teeth on movies like "The Golden Compass" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," Chris Weitz knows a thing or two about what makes your little YA-literature-loving hearts go pitter-pat—which is why it is really really extra-super-strength exciting that the director is about to bring his magic Twi-touch to a brand new, wholly original series of post-apocalyptic novels just for you. YOU! Personally!
According to the announcement from publisher Little, Brown, the literary trilogy-to-be will kick off with "The Young World": a story about the teenage sole survivors who inherit a destroyed and desolate earth, after a cataclysmic event kills off every person on earth not between the ages of 12 and 21. Ill-equipped to restore society to working order, the surviving residents of New York City must try to rebuild their world from the ground up—a tough charge for any decimated population, but especially difficult if you're trying to save your species from annihilation while simultaneously going through puberty. Drama will abound!
The bad news: The very first book won't be out until the painfully far-off year of 2014. (The other bad news: In the post-apocalyptic world in question, this writer would, um, be dead.) But on the upside, it does give us plenty of time to get crazy with speculation over what it'll look like when they make this one into a movie, because you know that is going to happen.
Source is Hollywood Crush, aka the bane of my once YA loving existence. Don't bother clicking for anything fun and exciting.
Way to cash in there on an overused, boring plot, guy who ruined The Golden Compass! Can't wait to see your book flop!
New Moon Director Decides to Become YA Author. Goody.
'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Is Writing A YA TrilogyAfter cutting his teeth on movies like "The Golden Compass" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," Chris Weitz knows a thing or two about what makes your little YA-literature-loving hearts go pitter-pat—which is why it is really really extra-super-strength exciting that the director is about to bring his magic Twi-touch to a brand new, wholly original series of post-apocalyptic novels just for you. YOU! Personally!
According to the announcement from publisher Little, Brown, the literary trilogy-to-be will kick off with "The Young World": a story about the teenage sole survivors who inherit a destroyed and desolate earth, after a cataclysmic event kills off every person on earth not between the ages of 12 and 21. Ill-equipped to restore society to working order, the surviving residents of New York City must try to rebuild their world from the ground up—a tough charge for any decimated population, but especially difficult if you're trying to save your species from annihilation while simultaneously going through puberty. Drama will abound!
The bad news: The very first book won't be out until the painfully far-off year of 2014. (The other bad news: In the post-apocalyptic world in question, this writer would, um, be dead.) But on the upside, it does give us plenty of time to get crazy with speculation over what it'll look like when they make this one into a movie, because you know that is going to happen.
Source is Hollywood Crush, aka the bane of my once YA loving existence. Don't bother clicking for anything fun and exciting.
Way to cash in there on an overused, boring plot, guy who ruined The Golden Compass! Can't wait to see your book flop!
i legit feared for my life upon seeing that photo
And I mostly agrees with you, but if there was doubts as to there ever would be a sequel, I kind of see why they wouldn't want to end the whole thing on that?
Did it better.
Because Baggott's is extremely weird and Armentrout's is a knockoff of Vampire Academy, LMAO.
And "...after a cataclysmic event kills off every person on earth not between the ages of 12 and 21". Wut? That seems a bit convenient. I didn't realise earthquakes and the like were so discriminatory!
Oh and I got Goodreads last night and need friends so add me etc
http://www.goodreads.com/ensemble
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8648
mine: http://www.goodreads.com/callmesere
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2329
I forgot all about it, so I'm sorry if it looks slightly emptied for now. :) I've added all of you too, so I hope you don't mind! :D
Edited at 2012-04-09 11:07 pm (UTC)
I see it. Quick, copyright that shit before Hollywood gets a hold of it.
did anyone else read this and like it? super good YA post-apocalyptic novel imo