variety.com - 8/8/2008
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Payne to adapt Patterson's young adult series Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to "Maximum Ride," the bestselling young adult novel series by James Patterson. Studio has set Don Payne to write the script. The protags are six children who have been genetically altered to be 98% human and 2% bird. The kids, who are bred to fly, escape a lab-rat existence and are then pursued by their ...
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It's a Bird! It's a Boy! It's a Franchise!
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Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, Sony, Comic/Superhero/Geek Okay, try and stay with me on this: it's a movie about six children who are genetically engineered to fly. Now, what if said kids escaped from those experimenting on them and were subsequently pursued by a pack of human-wolf hybrids?
I know what you're thinking -- that this could either be the best movie ever made or anything but. Variety has reason to think that Columbia is tipping towards the former, as they've picked up the rights to James Patterson's young adult book series, ...
Columbia goes for a ‘Maximum Ride’
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Columbia Pictures is all set and ready to develop a big-screen franchise based on James Patterson’s best-selling novel series “Maximum Ride,” according to Variety. The story focuses on six kids who underwent genetic modification to be 98 percent human and 2 percent bird. After escaping from the laboratories they’re held at, the children are pursued by a gang of werewolves sent to track them down. Don Payne, screenwriter of “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” is writing the script. Producer Avi Arad thinks “Maximum Ride” would make a good big-screen ...
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