Avi Arad to Produce Maximum Ride
--by Stephen Schleicher
Variety has reported that Avi and Ari Arad are set to produce the young adult novel series Maximum Ride for Columbia Pictures.
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 scientist creators, who send a pack of part-human part-wolves called Erasers to hunt them down.
If this series seems new to you, then you are behind the times, my dear Harry Potter fan, Maximum Ride has four books under its belt, with the fifth installment hitting book stores next year.
Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend) will be adapting the James Patterson novels for the screen.
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August 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
To Avi Arad
It’s so cool you’re making a film of Maximum Ride. I love the books and have been waiting ages for the film to come out. Have the cast already been chosen? If not could you email me when and where the auditions are taking place? I would love to be Max. I think I look exactly like her and I’m the right age. I know practically all the books off by heart and have been driving my family mad talking about Maximum Ride the movie.
From Rebecca Gibney
August 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hi I totallly agree with Rebecca. I have been researching and heard that the cast has not been chosen. I would love to audition. I would love to audition. I could write it a hundred times. I am really good ay memorizing and have an attitude very similar to Max. I also look quite a bit like her (except for the wings.) If you could please contact me. Much luck!!!!
Gillian Ashcraft
August 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hi!
Matthew here…
We at Major Spoilers have no connections to Avi Arad or anyone who might be casting the films, we just reports the news. But good luck in your artistic endeavors!
September 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I agree with the above!
except I have found it harder to act a similar part to yourself. So maybe being like max isnt such a good thing.