‘The Inheritance Games’ TV Adaptation Set At Lionsgate — Unique

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is increasing its younger grownup content material, optioning Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ bestselling ebook sequence The Inheritance Games for growth as a scripted sequence. The undertaking will likely be govt produced by Temple Hill Entertainment (The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner trilogy, The Fault in Our Stars), which is also teaming with Lionsgate on the anticipated Twilight sequence Midnight Sun for Netflix.

Barnes’ The Inheritance Games ebook sequence has offered over 6 million copies worldwide, with the primary installment within the sequence changing into an on the spot New York Times bestseller. 

In the scripted sequence, Avery Grambs has a plan for a greater future: survive highschool, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change immediately when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery just about his total fortune. The catch? Avery has no thought why – and even who Tobias Hawthorne is.

Barnes will function a producer.

The scripted adaptation joins Lionsgate’s slate of YA franchise properties together with The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games.

In addition to The Inheritance Games sequence, Barnes is the creator of greater than 20 younger grownup novels. Her books have been translated into greater than 30 languages and have offered thousands and thousands of copies worldwide. Barnes is a Fulbright Scholar and he or she acquired her PhD from Yale University. She wrote her first printed novel at 19.

Temple Hill is behind a number of profitable movie franchises, notably The Twilight Saga and The Maze Runner trilogy, in addition to The Fault in Our Stars, Fatherhood, Smile, and extra. The Inheritance Games tv sequence will likely be supervised by Temple Hill govt Annika Patton.

Barnes is repped by Elizabeth Harding and Holly Frederick at Curtis Brown Ltd.