At the beginning of the month, we passed on the news that Paramount Pictures was angling to nab the rights to DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, a bizarre young adult fantasy novel written by author Laini Taylor. Deadline.com, which broke the story, apparently didn’t count on Universal Pictures swooping in for the kill, as it has just come out that they’ve acquired the rights to the book.
Naturally, the book is just the first in a planned trilogy, and Universal is hoping that it has found the next TWILIGHT/HUNGER GAMES. (And not the next I AM NUMBER FOUR/VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT.)
Taylor had this to say about the acquisition: “My goal is always to write stories that readers will want to climb inside of and live in, and which – I hope – will allow them to just lose themselves in the page… It is a hugely thrilling prospect to think about Universal and filmmakers translating my world onscreen and giving it a second life in such a grand way. I’m over the moon.”
Here’s the synopsis for the book in case you need a refresher:
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages–not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.
Now the search begins for a screenwriter and director…
I AM NUMBER FOUR cutie Teresa Palmer
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