Welcome back to the YA Movie News Roundup, where we're (or at least, I'm) all aflutter at the news that Emma Watson, aka She Who Is The Best, is back on the YA circuit after Harry Potter and Perks of Being a Wallflower.
That's right - Watson's going to star in and executive produce the film adaptation of Erika Johansen's The Queen Of The Tearling. Here's the deal with that:
“The Queen of the Tearling” throws us into a magical, medieval world set not in the past or a fictional universe, but in the distant future of our own world...
Kelsea is a royal teen who’s been hidden all her life with adoptive parents; her mother, the queen, is dead, and her kingdom, the Tearling, is under the thumb of a neighboring country called Mortmesne, ruled by a supernaturally enhanced monarch known as the Red Queen. Besides sharing a name with the “Alice in Wonderland” character, the Red Queen recalls Melisandre of “GoT” with her mystical visions and dependence on human sacrifice.
On her 19th birthday, the “plain,” bookish Kelsea is summoned to assume the throne, a job for which she feels deeply unsuited.
There's actually way, way more plot synopsis here, if you're into knowing every single thing that happens in this book.
In other Harry Potter news, the spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will shoot in the U.K. I mean, we figured, but still.
And in even more: Rowling wrote some new short fiction describing the 34-year-old Harry, Ron and Hermione. I think I speak for us all when I say: eee!
And heck, while we're talking Rowling: I reviewed her latest Cormoran Strike book (writing as Robert Galbraith), The Silkworm. It's great.
Oh yeah, and Daniel Radcliffe is like the coolest in this picture, possibly taken while filming Judd Apatow's Trainwreck:
And Matthew Lewis is like the hottest in this picture (and in all of these):
In non-Harry Potter news: GUYS. Someone stole the Fault in Our Stars bench. Heads will roll!
Enchanted 2 is happening.
You, too, can have the virtual closet from Clueless.
And Overbrook Entertainment has nabbed the rights to a new YA novel by Jenny Han, titled To All The Boys I've Loved Before. Here's the deal with that:
[It's] about high schooler Lara Jean Song, who writes love letters to the five boys she’s ever loved and keeps them locked away in a hatbox until the day her letters are mailed, upending her real-life love life. Adapting the book will be writer Annie Neal, who made the Black List last year with her script Beauty Queen, about an unhappily married woman who road trips to Vegas with her bestie to compete in the Miss Married America competition.
That's it for this week! Give us your thoughts downstairs.