Radio Silence To Direct Feature Adaptation Of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Book Series For 20th
Radio Silence is set to direct a film adaptation of the popular Choose Your Own Adventure book series for 20th Century Studios. The script will be written by Tom Bissell, known for his work on various acclaimed projects. This film will mark the first major cinematic interpretation of the interactive storytelling phenomenon that began in 1979.
- ▪Radio Silence will direct and produce the Choose Your Own Adventure movie for 20th Century Studios.
- ▪Tom Bissell, a WGA Award winner, is writing the script for the adaptation.
- ▪The Choose Your Own Adventure series has sold over 250 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 38 languages.
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Radio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet Travis P. Ball/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios is eyeing a Choose Your Own Adventure movie, based on the long-running interactive book series, with Radio Silence (Ready or Not franchise) on board to direct and produce. Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will work from a script by Tom Bissell, a WGA Award winner with credits including Andor and The Disaster Artist. No details yet as to the plot of the feature take. One of the major literary phenomena of the late 20th century, Choose Your Own Adventure comprises a series of “gamebooks,” nonlinear, replayable, and user-directed stories, in which readers are the hero and decide how the story ends.
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