Legend was optioned by Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey just weeks after the book was purchased by Putnam.  Jonathan Levine (50/50) will direct. Below is the book trailer and an excerpt.

MY MOTHER THINKS I’M DEAD.Obviously I’m not dead, but it’s safer for her to think so.  At least twice a month, I see my Wanted poster ashed on the JumboTrons scattered throughout downtown Los Angeles.  It looks out of place up there. Most of the pictures on the screens are of happy things: smiling children standing under a bright blue sky, tourists posing before the Golden Gate Ruins, Republic commercials in neon colors. There’s also anti-Colonies propaganda.

“The Colonies want our land,” the ads declare.

“They want what they don’t have. Don’t let them conquer your homes! Support the cause!”

Then there’s my criminal report. It lights up the Jumbo-Trons in all its multicolored glory:

WANTED BY THE REPUBLIC

FILE NO:

462178-3233   “DAY”

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WANTED FOR ASSAULT, ARSON, THEFT,DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY PROPERTY AND HINDERING THE WAR EFFORT 200,000 REPUBLIC NOTES FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST

To read the first 3 chapters head over to the Legend Facebook page.

After reading the excerpt and seeing the trailer what do you think? Will you be picking up Legend on November 29th?