Kimberly Peirce will direct Universal's fantasy film "Wicked Lovely."According to Variety, Vince Vaughn, Valeri Vaughn and Peter Billingsley will produce for Wild West Picture Show Productions. Caroline Thompson is adapting Melissa Marr's New York Times bestselling novel which has been published in 18 languages. The other books in the series include "Ink Exchange," "Fragile Eternity" and "Radiant Shadows."The story centers on a female teenager named Aislinn who has followed a set of rules when dealing with dangerous faeries in her life. When she begins to have feelings for a boy, the faeries break the rules and up the stakes.Peirce's directing credits include "Boys Don't Cry" and "Stop-Loss."...
- 9/24/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Despite the general failure of her last film Stop-Loss Kimberly Peirce is a filmmaker I wish we heard more from. It's hard to make a living by directing films about serious stories in America's heartland, though, which might explain why for her third feature Peirce is heading in a decidedly new direction. Entertainment Weekly reports the Boys Don't Cry director has signed on to direct Wicked Lovely, an adaptation of the first in Melissa Marr's bestselling young adult fantasy series. Yes, I know you're already getting some nasty Twilight-tinged premonitions here-- and the design of that book cover sure doesn't help--but it doesn't look quite that bad. The main character is a teenage girl, Aislinn, who has always been able to see the "faeries" that apparently surround us, but she has been trained to pretend she doesn't see them. When the faery Summer King demands she become his Queen,...
- 9/24/2010
- cinemablend.com
"Boys Don't Cry" and "Stop-Loss" director Kimberly Peirce has been hired to direct a film adaptation of the first book in Melissa Marr's young adult fantasy series "Wicked Lovely" for Universal Pictures and Wild West Picture Show Productions reports Entertainment Weekly.
The story follows a teenage girl, Aislinn, who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life and must go against everything she was taught to confront a world she was raised to fear.
Caroline Thompson ("Corpse Bride") is adapting the script. Two further books in the series, "Ink Exchange" and "Fragile Eternity", have already been published with a fourth due out later this year.
The story follows a teenage girl, Aislinn, who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life and must go against everything she was taught to confront a world she was raised to fear.
Caroline Thompson ("Corpse Bride") is adapting the script. Two further books in the series, "Ink Exchange" and "Fragile Eternity", have already been published with a fourth due out later this year.
- 9/24/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
And another Universal adaptation project is gathering some additional steam today with the announcement that Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss) has been tapped to direct Melissa Marr's novel Wicked Lovely, the story of a teenage girl who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life.
According to Variety Peirce will direct the fantasy vehicle for Wild West Picture Show Productions with Vince Vaughn, Valeri Vaughn, and Peter Billingsley producing for Wild West. Caroline Thompson (Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas) is writing the script.
Wicked Lovely, published by HarperCollins, is a New York Times bestseller and has been published in 18 languages. Other books in the series include Ink Exchange and Fragile Eternity with the fourth installment, Radiant Shadows, published earlier this year.
The following is a synopsis of Wicked Lovely from Amazon:
Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world.
According to Variety Peirce will direct the fantasy vehicle for Wild West Picture Show Productions with Vince Vaughn, Valeri Vaughn, and Peter Billingsley producing for Wild West. Caroline Thompson (Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas) is writing the script.
Wicked Lovely, published by HarperCollins, is a New York Times bestseller and has been published in 18 languages. Other books in the series include Ink Exchange and Fragile Eternity with the fourth installment, Radiant Shadows, published earlier this year.
The following is a synopsis of Wicked Lovely from Amazon:
Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world.
- 9/23/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
If you’re tired of vampires, werewolves and zombies getting all up in your cinematic grill, how about faeries? Disney seems to think Tinkerbell is hero material, but other filmmakers (such as producer Guillermo del Toro on Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark) realises the flighty types can be mined for their menace. Universal is clearly in agreement with Guillermo, since the studio has set Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce to direct Wicked Lovely.While it sounds like a drama about a beauty pageant set in Boston, it’s not actually Ben Affleck’s next film. Wicked Lovely will be adapted by Corpse Bride writer Caroline Thompson from Melissa Marr’s fantasy novel, which follows a teenaged girl who possesses the ability to see dangerous faeries.Initially, she’s warned by her wise grandmother to ignore the creatures lest they attack her, but then the Summer King,...
- 9/23/2010
- EmpireOnline
Yet another candidate to replace The Twilight Saga upon its impending conclusion has manifested itself as Deadline reports director Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss) has signed for an adaptation of Melissa Marr's dark fantasy novel Wicked Lovely, the first in a whole series. The story follows Aislinn, a girl who has always seen faeries but followed her grandmother's rules to ignore them at all costs. But suddenly the faeries are stalking her and she's forced to confront them and their world that she's feared all her life. Scary and dark, this is not the kind of "fairy tale" that audiences have seen many times before. Though Aislinn has ignored these faeries, Keenan the Summer King has taken notice of her and is trying to talk to her, asking questions she's afraid to answer. Keenan has been searching for his Summer Queen for nine centuries and now he has...
- 9/23/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Forget vampires, how about faeries? And, no, I’m not talking about True Blood. Universal Pictures announced today that it’s hired Kimberly Peirce, the director behind Boys Don't Cry and Stop-Loss, to direct Wicked Lovely, the adaptation of the first book in the best-selling young adult fantasy series by Melissa Marr. Universal Pictures is producing the film with Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Productions.
The film centers on a teenage girl, Aislinn, who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life and must go against everything she was taught to confront a world she was raised to fear.
The film centers on a teenage girl, Aislinn, who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life and must go against everything she was taught to confront a world she was raised to fear.
- 9/23/2010
- by Nicole Sperling
- EW - Inside Movies
Kimberly Peirce, the Boys Don't Cry helmer who last directed Stop-Loss, has come aboard the Melissa Marr fantasy novel Wicked Lovely for Universal Pictures and Vince Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show Productions. Caroline Thompson is writing the script, the first in a series about a teenaged girl who has seen dangerous faeries all her life. Taught by her grandmother to ignore them so they won't attack, the teen realizes she must drop that and confront a world she has been raised to fear.
- 9/23/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Kimberly Peirce has signed on to direct Wicked Lovely for Universal, reports Heat Vision . The project, just announced last week, will adapt Melissa Marr's series of novels about Aislinn, a 17-year-old girl who has the ability to see fairies and who is drawn into their dangerous world. Wicked Lovely marks only the third feature film from Peirce, who followed her 1995 critically acclaimed Boys Don't Cry with 2008's Stop-Loss .
- 9/23/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Where would comics be without the stories of young people with amazing powers? Oh, sure, you could cobble together a world canon of stories with no supernatural stuff at all, but it would have to be a masterpiece of the gerrymanderer’s art. And why would you want to – when you can have all of the moody, or conflicted, or ridiculously innocent teenagers with amazing abilities you ever thought of? Like the main characters of these three books, for example…
Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales, Volume 1: Sanctuary
Written by Melissa Marr; Art by Xian Nu Studio
Tokyopop/HarperCollins, May 2009, $12.99
Wicked Lovely is the name of a novel by Marr, and it also seems to be the umbrella title for her novels about teens and faeries (and teen faeries, and faerie teens) in the modern world. The novels seem to be about a girl named Aislinn – no self-respecting teen-novel heroine...
Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales, Volume 1: Sanctuary
Written by Melissa Marr; Art by Xian Nu Studio
Tokyopop/HarperCollins, May 2009, $12.99
Wicked Lovely is the name of a novel by Marr, and it also seems to be the umbrella title for her novels about teens and faeries (and teen faeries, and faerie teens) in the modern world. The novels seem to be about a girl named Aislinn – no self-respecting teen-novel heroine...
- 10/2/2009
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Screen rights to author Melissa Marr's 2007 fantasy novel Wicked Lovely have been picked up by Universal Pictures, for development by actor/producer Vince Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show Productions. Screenplay is by writer Caroline "Edward Scissorhands" Thompson. Premise of the book follows 'Aislinn', a woman with the ability to see 'faeries'. When a faery leader named 'Summer King' discovers a human has knowledge of his world, Aislinn is forced to become his Queen...
- 9/17/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
The film rights to Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely fantasy novel have been sold to Universal Pictures. Developing the project is Wild West Picture Show Productions, the company that Vince Vaughn owns. Vaughn isn't thinking of starring in the movie, which is a good idea since Marr's main character is a woman, but he'll serve as a creative producer.
The novel came out in 2007 and introduced Aislinn, a young woman who has the ability to see faeries. Taught by her grandmother (who can also see the magical beings) to never let the faeries know that the two women can see them for fear of being attacked, Aislinn has grown up and mastered the ability to walk right past a faery and never let he/she know that a pair of human eyes know they are with us. But when a faery leader named the Summer King comes to realize that...
The novel came out in 2007 and introduced Aislinn, a young woman who has the ability to see faeries. Taught by her grandmother (who can also see the magical beings) to never let the faeries know that the two women can see them for fear of being attacked, Aislinn has grown up and mastered the ability to walk right past a faery and never let he/she know that a pair of human eyes know they are with us. But when a faery leader named the Summer King comes to realize that...
- 9/16/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to "Wicked Lovely," the bestselling first book in a fantasy series written by Melissa Marr that will see its fourth installment published next year by Harper Collins, reports Variety . The protagonist is a 17-year-old girl who can see fairies, and must fend off the advances of a fairy king determined to marry her to save the planet from his vengeful mother. Edward Scissorhands screenwriter Caroline Thompson will adapt the book.
- 9/15/2009
- Comingsoon.net
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