Timur Bekmambetov Adapting ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LUNAR BOY

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Sci-Fi fans, we have some great news for you. Stephen Tunney's young adult novel One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy is set to be adapted by Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelevs banner. Variety reports that feature film rights have been acquired and Edward Ricourt (Now You See Me) has been hired to adapt.

The book combines "a visually inventive world with a powerful coming-of-age story about a boy finding his place in the universe. Set 2000 years in the future, novel's protag is 16-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, who lives on the now-colonized moon, where he meets a girl from Earth who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special--some say dangerous--condition, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter." This is a pretty awesome ability to have, and I can just see how Bekmambetov's visual effects team will be a major asset in bringing this story to life.

The project will be produced by Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff, and Guy Stodel (Be Kind Rewind) will exec produce. Ricourt seems like a perfect choice to adapt the story. He wrote Year 12 for Roth Films and co-wrote Summit's magician heist pic Now You See Me with Boaz Yakin. Ricourt has already adapted How to Defeat Your Own Clone for Dimension. I think that this sounds like a really cool novel. It seems like so many books are begin turned into movies lately, which makes me wonder, how many books are written in hopes of being made into a movie?

What do you think of this news? Do you think that this will make a good film?

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