Faeries are ruthless and they will not hesitate to bring harm to those individuals who either intentionally or accidentally pierce the veil maintaining their secrecy.Īishlin, the heroine of Wicked Lovely, was told very early on in her life that her special ability to see faeries had to remain a secret. This freedom is nurtured by a special ability these creatures have to hide from human eyes. Fortunately, faeries have the freedom to administer their affairs in isolation, away from the meddling hands of human beings. The politics of the dark and the high court is messy, complicated by matters of love and romance. The affairs of the magical realm are managed by the Dark Court and the High Court, two factions of the fae that represent the darkness and the light.įor peace to persist, perfect harmony must be maintained between these two entities. The book takes readers to a world where faeries are real.

So she turned the story into a full-length novel and submitted it to an agent. But Melissa, the author, saw potential in the characters. CAA brokered the book deal for Marr with Writers House, and the agency reps WWPSP and Pukeko Pictures.Wicked Lovely, the first novel in the series, actually started as a short story called The Sleeping Girl. New Zealand-based Weta has The Lord Of The Rings and Avatar among its credits. Pukeko Pictures is co-owned by Baynton, Tania Rodger and Taylor, the latter an Oscar and BAFTA Award winner.

In the novel, a teen girl who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life much suddenly go against everything she was taught to confront a world she was raised to fear. The script was written by Caroline Thompson, the scribe behind Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Marr’s book series has a global following and has been published in 26 languages. The project was grabbed back from turnaround by WWPSP, and it rears up again at a time when there is a strong market for female driven YA adaptations, after Divergent and The Fault In Our Stars. WWPSP’s Vince Vaughn, Valeri Vaughn and Peter Billingsley are producing with Pukeko’s Martin Baynton and Adam Fratto, and Richard Taylor is exec producing. They will set a director shortly and then CAA will shop the project. Originally set up at Universal by Wild West Picture Show Productions, the project is now freed up and WWPSP has brought in indie production house Pukeko Pictures to produce and oversee special effects, and Weta Workshop for design and physical effects. The movie adaptation of the Melissa Marr novel Wicked Lovely has conjured up a second wind.

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