New Writers Hired to Penn Author Marie Lu’s Futuristic Novel, Legend

CBS Films has hired up-and-coming writers Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari to adapt Marie Lu’s forthcoming novel “Legend”, a futuristic Robin Hood-like tale set against two warring nations that inhabit what is now the United States.
According to Heat Vision, the company hopes to develop the project as a major young adult franchise, not unlike ‘The Twilight Saga’.
CBS has already hired Jonathan Levine to direct the adaptation, which is being produced by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of ‘The Twilight Saga’ fame.
The novel, which has received positive early reviews, is being published by Putnam and is due out on November 29.
Story synopsis: Legend takes place in Los Angeles over a hundred years in the future, when North America is split into two warring nations. Legend focuses on Day, a fifteen-year old Robin Hood figure who happens to be the nation’s most wanted criminal, and June, a teenage prodigy who is hired to hunt him down. The pair are caught in a game of cat and mouse until an impossible truth about their totalitarian leaders forces them to work together.
Barrer and Ferrari wrote Die in a Gunfight, a Romeo and Juliet-like action project that made the 2010 Blacklist.