Hardwicke considering ‘Maximum Ride’

From one pre-teen/young-adult fantasy adaptation to another, director Catherine Hardwicke is considering an offer from Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct ‘Maximum Ride’.

The five-volume series by James Patterson chronicles six teens, known as the Flock, who are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. Learning to fly, they escape the laboratory where they have been housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf. — HR

The screenplay is being penned by Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and Patterson himself is serving as an executive producer. The series was popular enough to spawn a Manga version, but it’s my personal opinion that they would benefit more from a different choice at the wheel, so to speak. The “success” of ‘Twilight’ was not due to the director, but solely due to the mass following of the series of books.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]