The book won’t hit stores until June, but a fierce bidding war for the big-screen rights to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has broken out in Hollywood.
The fantasy novel is the first from Ransom Riggs and centers on a boy who grows up enraptured by his grandfather’s tale of an island of monsters and kids with powers. When his grandfather is killed, the now-16-year old boy finds himself on the island, exploring the ruins of an abandoned orphanage and discovering that the stories he heard were not only true, but only he can help stop the remaining hidden children – living in a time loop – from creatures who would destroy them.
The book comes with creepy black-and-white photographs of some of the kids that help tell the story.
The novel is being shopped to studios and its reported that 20th Century Fox is very interested in the book.
We’ll have details on this week’s Slice of SciFi.
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