Universal Pictures have bought the worldwide rights to adapt National Book Award Finalist Laini Taylor’s critically-acclaimed novel DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE for the big-screen. The book, published in September, is the first of a planned trilogy that follows a dark fantasy tale of love with evil lurking throughout the plot. The intriguing synopsis for the book goes as follows:-
In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she’s a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in ‘Elsewhere’, she has never understood Brimstone’s dark work – buying teeth from hunters and murderers – nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole.
Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.
The author spoke of her delight at the news by saying:-
My goal is always to write stories that readers will want to climb inside of and live in, and which – I hope – will allow them to just lose themselves in the page. It is a hugely thrilling prospect to think about Universal and filmmakers translating my world onscreen and giving it a second life in such a grand way. I’m over the moon.
Source: Universal Pictures
