Jennifer Yuh Nelson, the director behind the last two films in the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise, will adapt a young-adult fiction trilogy for her first live-action movie.
The book “The Darkest Minds,” written by Alexandra Bracken and published in 2012, is set in a dystopian world and follows the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl whose supernatural abilities have gotten her sent away to a rehabilitation camp. Two more books were released, in 2013 and 2014.
Optioned by Fox, the film will be produced by Shawn Levy (“The Internship”) and his company 21 Laps, and written by Chad Hodge (“Wayward Pines”), according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Yuh Nelson, whose last “Kung Fu Panda” movie made $518 million worldwide after its January release, saw an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature for “Kung Fu Panda 2” in 2011.
Before then, the Korean-born filmmaker was a storyboard artist for DreamWorks Animation.
