Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to James Patterson’s young adult novel series “Maximum Ride” says Variety.
The story followse six children who have been genetically altered to be 98% human and 2% bird. The kids, who are bred to fly, escape a lab-rat existence and are then pursued by their scientist creators, who send a pack of part-human part-wolves called Erasers to hunt them down.
Don Payne (“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”) will pen the script and Patterson will serve as executive producer.
