Watch out, Twilight, you may have some competition coming your way.
Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie’s young adult series Wicked, which centers around a young girl who finds out she is a descended from a coven of witches, will be going from the page to the big screen.
Aaron and Matthew Benay have written a screen adaptation based on the series, and DreamWorks quickly bought up the rights to put the story on film.
Being a fairly new deal, production details are as of yet undetermined, aside from the fact that the Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams and Michael Prevett are producing.
If the popularity of such otherworldly book series as Twilight and Harry Potter and the success of their screen adaptations is any indicator, the Wicked series will likely also do very well.
If Wicked does end up drawing as much interest as Twilight has, might we see witches replacing vampires as the next big trend? Hm…
