The Selection Movie

What? That's right, you're not dreaming, Warner Bros has officially purchased the film rights to Kiera Cass' The Selection, and I'll leave the official article speak for itself:

Warner Bros has won film rights to Kiera Cass’ global bestseller The Selection, the first of a five-novel series, and has set Black List scribe Katie Lovejoy to adapt it. DiNovi Pictures’ Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan are producing with Pouya Shahbazian. Lovejoy’s script The Arsonist Love Story made the 2010 Black List.

The book has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, and two other volumes have been published. HarperTeen just made a two-book deal to continue the series, which is published in 32 languages. Described as The Hunger Games without the bloodshed, it follows 35 underprivileged girls who are chosen to compete to live in a life of luxury. The protagonist, America Singer, is sweet on a young man from her district, but when she’s exposed to the opulence of a royal life, she’s conflicted, even though a rebel uprising threatens the pampered.

As for Lovejoy, she recently developed a pilot for NBC, with Universal Television, Eva Longoria, and John Glenn producing. She previously wrote pilots for NBC, Bravo, and ABC and worked on the staff of the NBC series Dracula. She is repped by CAA and Myman Greenspan. Cass is repped by Red Tree Literary and New Leaf Literary & Media. Andy Fischel and Julia Spiro are overseeing for Warner Bros.

(from: <http://deadline.com/2015/04/the-selection-keira-cass-katie-lovejoy-warner-bros-1201413855/>)

Now do you believe me?

The Selection Movie is finally happening! And I do hope that this one won't get cancelled like the last one. Yeah, the last one was a failed TV series pilot. Wait, make that two failed pilots. I think it's still available on Hulu or something, not sure, but you could try checking it out on YouTube too, I think. Although disappointed, I was pretty glad that the TV series didn't happen, because it was: HORRIBLE. 

Who would make Maxon sound like a rapist?! The Maxon in the pilot was everything the Maxon we know (and love) wasn't. 

Then the second pilot, with a different actress playing as America this time, didn't even have red hair. Like, what? The red hair was America. So no ginger, no America. 

Oh and, let me give you the failed pilot (clips of it, anyway):

There's also a leaked Selection script online, but it's too inappropriate to put up here, so, if you think you're mature enough to handle it, go ahead and search it up (?)

And that's that. Can't wait for the movie to finally come out!