My fellow YA novel enthusiasts, if you haven't read Lauren Oliver's thoroughly engrossing love story, "Delirium," you best get yourself to a Barnes & Noble, like, right now because the dystopian tome is headed to the multiplex!
Deadline reports that Fox 2000 has purchased the screen rights to the New York Times bestselling novel, in addition to signing a first-look deal with Lauren's company Paper Lantern Lit (meaning more of the author's works could land in theaters in the coming years).
For the uninitiated, "Delirium" is set in a world where love is considered a disease, which is cured by a lobotomy-like procedure. Enter 17-year-old Lena Haloway, who just weeks before her surgery comes down with the dreaded sickness (a.k.a. she meets a boy). Lena begins to reevaluate the world as she's known it, questioning whether the government is really the one who should pick her husband, and essentially, her life path.
I, for one, am really excited to see this work come to life, not only because it is an engaging read (seriously, there was sobbing...from me), but "Delirium" is also written with an eye for the visual (I'm thinking of one particular scene involving an aptly timed cattle stampede...). With production still in its earliest stages, we figured it the perfect opportunity to hop on the Hollywood Crush Casting Couch and pick a few favorites for the lead role of Lena.
Here is how Lena describes herself: "I'm not ugly, but I'm not pretty, either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin, but I'm not fat, either. The only thing you could definitely say about me is this: I'm short." To be fair, we learn later that, like most teens, Lena is more harsh on her looks than she should be. That being said, here are our recommendations for Lena (keep in mind casting a petite actress is a tall order in an industry littered with leggy young things):
Back in the 1990s, we spent approximately 95 percent of our leisure time either watching "The Bodyguard," listening to the soundtrack from "The Bodyguard" or prancing around in front of our bedroom mirror and shamelessly belting an off-key version of "I Will Always Love You" into a hairbrush microphone while simultaneously having naughty, naughty fantasies about making out with Kevin Costner on an airport tarmac.
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While most of us are spending this week in a sugar-induced fugue state, licking the discarded wrappers from the last of our Halloween candy and wondering whether we'll ever fit into our pants again, Hollywood is already looking ahead to the holidays. Next New Year's Eve, to be exact. Today brought news from 
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It looks like Summit Entertainment has picked up yet another young adult novel that they hope can follow in the footsteps of "
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