Black Forest obtained the rights to Quaratine: The Loner by Lex Thomas. The novel, the first of a trilogy, will be released July 10th by Egmont USA.
Black Forest Film Group has acquired feature rights to the “Hunger Games”-esque novel “Quarantine: The Loners” by Lex Thomas, a pseudonym for authors Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies, who will write the screenplay together.
Black Forest was founded by Mark Morgan (“The Twilight Saga”), Kami Garcia (“Beautiful Creatures”), E. Thompson and Brett Hudson will produce with Rachel Miller and Jesse Hara of Tom Sawyer Entertainment.
Black Forest has also acquired a spec script from author Ransom Riggs and optioned the rights to Garcia’s new novel Unbreakable.
Synopsis:
It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning.
A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you’re as good as dead. And David has no gang. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school.
In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don’t fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive.
What do you think? Is this a book you would read or a movie you would watch?