Continuing on its path of adapting young adult novels, Fox 2000 has optioned the debut novel Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira.
According to Deadline Fox 2000 has optioned Ava Dellaira’s debut novel Love Letters to the Dead. Producing are Temple Hill‘s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who produced the upcoming The Fault in Our Stars.
The author will write the script. Wyck Godfrey has been the driving force behind several young adult adaptations in the upcoming Maze Runner. He seems to have a knack for picking novels to adapt. Temple Hill is also known for producing Nicholas Spark’s adaptations.
Related: The Fault in our Stars leads new trend in adaptations
Love Letters to the Dead is a contemporary novel about a girl named Laurel and her English assignment to write a letter to a dead person. For Laurel this one assignment turns into several that she never actually hands in.
Through the letters we learn about Laurel’s broken family and her dead sister, May. Laurel has clearly been through something traumatic and as the story unfolds so does the truth about Laurel.
The novel has the same vibe as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and with the pending success of The Fault in Our Stars it isn’t surprising that Fox 2000 is optioning another contemporary novel. They also optioned John Green’s other novel, Paper Towns which is set to star Nat Wolf.