Warner Bros. Options Heist Society, a Young Adult Thriller by Ally Carter

February 7th, 2010 admin

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Bros. has won a multi-studio bidding war to option the film rights to Ally Carter ’s young adult thriller Heist Society , which publishes next week. Shauna Cross will write the adaptation, which is expected to feature somewhat older characters than the teenagers in the book. About Heist Society (from the publisher): When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre … to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria … to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own — scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected. …

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