Marty Bowen - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:42:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Josh Boone to Direct ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Fox 2000 has brought on filmmaker Josh Boone to direct The Fault in Our Stars movie adaptation. Last year, Boone wrote and directed an original film called Stuck in Love.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the screenwriting duo behind (500) Days of Summer, will write the script. Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, the producers of The Twilight Saga film franchise, will produce this project.

As of this writing, John Green‘s popular young-adult novel has spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times  bestsellers list.

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]]> Maryann Yin http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/josh-boone-to-direct-the-fault-in-our-stars_b65659#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/josh-boone-to-direct-the-fault-in-our-stars_b65659 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=65659 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:23:50 +0000 Three Debut Novelists Score Movie Deals Writers Veronica Roth, Marie Lu and Erin Morgenstern all landed movie deals for their debut novels.

Roth released Divergent in May; Morgenstern’s book The Night Circus is due out in September and Lu’s title Legend will hit bookstores in late November. Lu sold her book’s movie rights to CBS Films. Summit Entertainment snatched up the rights to Roth and Morgenstern’s novels.

According to Variety, Harry Potter film producer David Heyman is interested in The Night Circus film. Deadline reported that Twilight film producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are looking at Legend. All three authors made an appearance at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.

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