Thursday, January 05, 2012

Filmmaker Chris Columbus to Co-Author Middle-Grade Fantasy/Thriller Trilogy

HarperCollins Children's Books

HarperCollins Children's Books announced today that filmmaker Chris Columbus — who produced and directed the first two "Harry Potter" films as well as Percy Jackson the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — will team up with young adult author Ned Vizinni to write a trilogy of middle-school thrillers.

The series involves a San Francisco family that has to downsize when the father loses his job. They move into a home built 100 years earlier by a fantasy writer named Kristoff, where the siblings find themselves on a journey to retrieve a book of untold power.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Columbus talks about the origin of the series:

At one point, I started it as a screenplay, so there were about fifty pages of a screenplay that would become the first seven or eight chapters of the book. Then I thought, "Maybe it'd work as a television pilot," and I immediately discarded that idea because this is something that would be prohibitively expensive for television. Then I put it away and I didn't think about it, but it was always coming back to me at some point or another. Finally, I thought maybe this would work as a young adult novel for no other reason except I really wanted to see it to its conclusion.

The first book in the "House of Secrets" trilogy is scheduled for publication in Spring 2013.

(Related article: EW.com.)

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