Radio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Directing Adaptation of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Book Series
Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not franchise) are set to direct and produce a Choose Your Own Adventure movie for 20th Century Studios, based on the long-running interactive book series. The dup will work from a script by Tom Bissell, a WGA Award winner with credits including Andor and The Disaster Artist.
No details have been released yet as to the plot of the feature take, but as we who grew up with the book know, Choose Your Own Adventure comprises a series of nonlinear, replayable and user-directed stories, in which readers are the hero who decide how the story ends.
The series officially launched at Bantam Books in 1979 with The Cave of Time, a book by Edward Packard, who had ideated a novel branching-story concept while telling bedtime stories to his daughters.
Between 1997 and 1999, more than 184 of these gamebooks were published from 30 different authors, with stories set everywhere from the ocean to outer space and myriad fantasy worlds.
R. A. Montgomery was instrumental in setting the series up at Bantam at a time when the company was launching a division focused on younger readers and became one of its primary authors.
In 2003, he and author wife Shannon Gilligan took over as the series’ publisher via Chooseco, which says the series sold more than 250 million copies worldwide in its original run, with translations in 38 languages, and is the fourth-bestselling of all time in the arena of children’s books.
Choose Your Own Adventure has had an enduring cultural impact, as a series at the vanguard of interactive storytelling, with Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch being one of the most notable recent projects implementing this basic framework to break into the mainstream.
via: Deadline