Let's see... Teen fiction has been drenched in the supernatural for most of the decade thanks to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, which launched an onslaught of imitators and reprints of earlier teen vamps and werewolves fiction. The CW's recent smash hit, The Vampire Diaries, was originally a teen vampire series from the early 1990s and has experienced newfound success both on screen and in print.
Now, it's time for some new blood (no pun intended) in the teen fiction subgenre and that change will arrive on the wings of teen angels.
THR reports that Walt Disney Pictures have optioned the rights for "Fallen", a novel by Lauren Kate about a teen girl, Luce, who has two guys fighting over her. But unbeknownst to her, the two young men are fallen angels and have been battling over her for ages. So it's basically the feel of Twilight with the scenario of The Vampire Diaries, but with fallen angels.
It's a win in my book.
Mark Ciardi and Gordon Grey, of Mayhem Productions, will produce the film, with Victor Constantino being the eyes and ears for Ciardi and Grey.
What THR left out of their report is that fallen angels, which are sometimes seen as demons, have been among us already in book and TV form. UK's Sky One produced the cult hit, HEX, which involved fallen angels as the antagonists for two teen witches, while Thomas Sniegoski's "The Fallen" featured a young teen who finds out that he is a fallen angel and has to run from rogue fallen angels who are out to kill him. ABC Family turned Sniegoski's series of books into a miniseries, also titled Fallen, that starred Paul Wesley, who currently portrays teen vamp Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries.
Lauren Kate's "Fallen" novel was released this past Tuesday and is the first in a planned series.
Source: THR
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