Paramount Studios has snatched up an interesting new book, Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova, about a Latina witch who rejects her destiny.
It’s the norm these days for film studios to tap into the YA book world to find material to adapt into a movie, usually to great success. Harry Potter. The Hunger Games. Divergent.
Next up is Cordova’s Labyrinth Lost. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Studios has optioned the film, though it’s still too early on in development to have any real information, such as producers, directors, or actors.
The synopsis for Labyrinth Lost reads:
The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…
Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic.
At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she’s not sure she can trust, but who may be Alex’s only chance at saving her family.
Labyrinth Lost’s sequel, Circle Unbroken, will publish in 2018.