Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have picked up the rights to all three books in Lisa McMann’s young adult series, WAKE, FADE and GONE. Miley Cyrus is attached to star. “Disturbia” co-writer Christopher Landon will adapt the first book, WAKE, for the screen. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lindsay Williams of The Gotham Group are producing along with Jodi Zuckerman and Tish Cyrus of Hope Town Entertainment and Steven Schneider and Jason Blum.
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The Story:
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people’s dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie’s seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can’t tell anybody about what she does — they’d never believe her, or worse, they’d think she’s a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn’t want and can’t control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else’s twisted psyche. She is a participant….
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