Move over Percy Jackson, there’s another Greek myth fantasy story coming to the big screen! The Hollywood Reporter has it that Universal is slated to develop the best-selling YA fantasy novel Lore by Alexandra Bracken as a movie.
Originally published in 2021, Lore is a fantasy tale that’s been described as a mash-up between The Hunger Games and Greek mythology. It follows Lore Perseous, a young woman who enters a hunt known as the Agon, where nine Greek gods are forced to walk the Earth as punishment for a past uprising while mortal descendants of ancient bloodlines try to slay them in order to gain their power.
Lore turned her back on the Agon after her family was brutally murdered, but is drawn back to it years later when a childhood friend she believed to be dead and the goddess Athena both approach her with a chance for vengeance…and a chance to leave the bloody world of Greek mythological intrigue behind for good. Another Agon begins in New York City, and Lore is drawn back into the fray.
Alexandra Bracken’s novel Lore is being adapted as a movie
We’re all in favor of more fantasy books heading to movie theaters, and while Lore is a relatively new novel, it has captured the hearts of many readers. This won’t be the first of Bracken’s books to be adapted; her novel The Darkest Minds was adapted as a movie by 20th Century Fox back in 2018 starring Amandla Stenberg and Harris Dickinson.
Bracken will serve as an executive producer on Lore. Veteran producer Amy Pascal (Sony’s Spider-Man) will serve as a producer, while Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the writing duo behind the G.I. Joe film Snake Eyes, will pen the screenplay.
No release date has yet been announced for Lore. But in the meantime, the novel is readily available if you want to get an idea of what the story is about! Alexandra Bracken’s latest book, an Arthurian-inspired fantasy called Silver in the Bone, released on April 4.
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