Between "The Twilight Saga," "The Hunger Games" trilogy and every Jane Austen adaptation ever made, we can't help noticing that Hollywood has a serious literary bent: The best movies all seem to start out as really great books. So we're extra-psyched by Deadline's report that "The Future of Us," a novel by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, has just had its film rights snatched up by Warner Bros.—before the first printing has even hit stores. That's like buzz on top of buzz for a book that won't even be readable until November.
So, about "The Future of Us"! Don't let the schlocky-romance-sounding name fool you; this is a time-traveling drama for the digital age—think "Back to the Future" meets "The Social Network"—featuring a teenage girl who logs onto the internet for the first time in 1996, and thanks to a rip in the space-time continuum, stumbles upon the Faceboook profile of her 20-something future self. (What happens next? Dunno! But we can probably assume that hijinks ensue!)
And if Jay Asher's name is familiar, that's because he's got a talent for penning books that are ready-made for the Hollywood treatment; his debut novel, "13 Reasons Why," is currently in production with Selena Gomez in the lead role.
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