Warner Bros. adapting THE FUTURE OF US

Warner Bros has picked up the screen rights to The Future of Us, a novel by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. The project is being produced by Denise Di Novi's Di Novi Pictures. The novel had Fox also interested in the rights as well. The story is set in 1996, "when a young girl gets the Internet at home for the first time. When she logs on, up pops a strange website. It's her Facebook profile from 15 years in the future, and she and her best friend try to change themselves to fit into or reject their future lives. Subtle decisions drastically influence who they become."

Asher's first novel, 13 Reasons Why, has become a big international bestseller and is being developed as a starring vehicle for Selena Gomez at Universal. Mackler also wrote The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things. The Future of Us arrives on book shelves in November from Razorbill, with a 500,000-copy first printing. It sounds like an interesting mix of time travel ideas wrapped up in a young adult novel about finding ones self. Love th way that the film is using  current social media. 

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