Love Letters To The Dead Updates Is The Novel Adaptation Still Coming

Love Letters To The Dead Updates: Is The Novel Adaptation Still Coming?

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Is Ava Dellaira’s young adult novel Love Letters To The Dead still getting the big screen treatment? Here’s what we know about the adaptation.

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Love Letters To The Dead Updates Is The Novel Adaptation Still Coming

Is Love Letters To The Dead still getting a big screen adaptation? Love Letters To The Dead is the debut novel of American writer Ava Dellaira. Published in 2014 by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the young adult novel tells the tale of Laurel – a teenage girl from Albuquerque, New Mexico who is navigating a new high school while still reeling from the untimely death of her older sister May, her parent’s divorce and being virtually abandoned by her mother.

When Laurel’s English teacher sets her class an assignment that involves writing a letter to a dead person, she chooses Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and soon begins an ongoing but one-sided correspondence with fellow legends from beyond the grave, reasoning that “Confiding in dead geniuses helps a teen process her grief and rage.” Penned epistolary style, Love Letters To The Dead sees its teenage protagonist write letters to figures including late actors River Phoenix and Heath Ledger, hippie rock stars Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison and literary legends like John Keats and E.E. Cummings.

Praised for its realistic depiction of a teenager working through her grief, Love Letters To The Dead earned rave reviews and favorable comparisons to the likes of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why. Like many a successful YA novel before it, Love Letters To The Dead attracted the attention of film industry executives who expressed an interest in translating the book to the big screen – but is that still happening? Here’s what we know.

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Fox 2000 & Temple Hill Entertainment Optioned Love Letters To The Dead

Love Letters To The Dead Updates Is The Novel Adaptation Still Coming

Back in 2014, news broke that Fox 2000 had optioned the rights to a movie version of Love Letters To The Dead with production company Temple Hill Entertainment producing and Ava Dellaira set to write its script. Temple Hill Entertainment brought a wealth of experience to the project, having previously produced other YA movie adaptations including the Twilight Saga, The Fault In Our Stars and the Maze Runner franchise.

Catherine Hardwicke Was Attached To Direct

In 2015, an exclusive from THR revealed Catherine Hardwicke was in talks to direct the adaptation of Love Letters To The Dead. Hardwicke is best known for helming the first film in the Twilight franchise alongside other movies including Thirteen, Lords Of Dogtown and Red Riding Hood. Since then, however, there hasn’t been much in the way of updates on a Love Letters To The Dead movie. It’s still classed as in development on IMDb, though, so hopefully the YA novel will get the big screen treatment in the not too distant future.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/love-letters-dead-movie-updates-release-date-story/

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