It remains to be seen if this movie will ultimately be appropriate fodder for AITH, but as it deals with the touch of death, I think we’ll give it a whirl for now.
20th Century Fox has snatched up the rights to SHATTER ME, a book that hasn’t even been published yet. Written by 23-year-old Tahereh Mafi, the story takes place in a dystopian future and focuses on an imprisoned girl with a fatal touch.
The official synopsis:
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a seventeen-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Juliette has a choice to make: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Sounds interesting; it’s obviously eliciting comparisons to THE HUNGER GAMES (the movie version of which is set to star Jennifer Lawrence, pictured below), and Fox no doubt hopes to jump aboard that band wagon with SHATTER ME. No director or screenwriter has been attached yet; the book hits shelves this fall.
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