EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures and Wattpad Webtoon Studios will staff for a function adaptation of Chasing Red, the YA romance webnovel by Isabelle Ronin that has garnered big consideration on the digital publishing platform, Wattpad.
Jessika Borsiczky (Sex/Life) has been set to direct from a screenplay by Lauren Schacher, and casting is now underway.
Chasing Red tells the story of straight-A scholar Veronica, who refuses to be school heartthrob Caleb’s subsequent “conquest,” even after an opportunity encounter sparks an simple attraction between them. But with nowhere to remain and on the run from a latest tragedy, Veronica finds herself in want of Caleb’s assist, regardless of the secrets and techniques of their pasts threatening to tear them aside. Wattpad’s #2 English-language property, following the massively in style After sequence from Anna Todd, the webnovel has garnered over 260 million reads since its publication in 2017. It’s been revealed in print in seven languages, and has additionally been tailored right into a Webtoon webcomic with over 6.9M views and new chapters debuting weekly.
Producers on the function take embrace Stampede Ventures’ Greg Silverman and Jon Berg, in addition to Wattpad Webtoon Studios’ Aron Levitz and Lindsey Weems Ramey. Exec producers embrace Gideon Yu, Chris Bosco, Mike Tadross, and Grant Torre from Stampede and David Madden from Wattpad Webtoon.
Said Stampede Ventures’ Berg on behalf of the corporate, “We are thrilled to be making a movie from Isabelle’s wildly popular book series. Chasing Red has a passionate global fandom, with over 260 million reads online. With the incredibly talented Jessika Borsiczky, we’re going to make a sexy and vibrant film bringing Red and Caleb into real life from the page!”
Wattpad Webtoon Studios’ Head of Global Entertainment, Madden, mentioned that given Chasing Red‘s extraordinary reputation through the years on Wattpad, “the fact that we were able to adapt it first into a WEBTOON webcomic and now into a live-action film is a perfect example of our mission to help our creators like Isabelle build franchises and fandoms across formats.” The exec added that his firm is “thrilled to work with the excellent producing team at Stampede Ventures,” additionally noting that “Jessika is both an old friend and a sensitive and passionate director. Romance on screens has never been bigger, and this adaptation will be exactly what romance lovers are clamoring for.”
Best recognized for guiding and exec producing the Netflix sequence Sex/Life starring Sarah Shahi, Borsiczky has additionally fulfilled these duties on reveals together with Lifetime’s UnREAL and Showtime’s House of Lies. She wrote on and exec produced Peacock’s Renée Zellweger true crime automobile The Thing About Pam and has additionally helmed episodes of reveals like Lucifer and Cloak & Dagger.
Most not too long ago seeing the discharge of initiatives together with the MTV Studios-acquired YA function Pink Skies Ahead starring Jessica Barden, in addition to the Netflix doc The Saint of Second Chances from Morgan Neville and Jeff Malmberg, Stampede’s subsequent movie on the docket is Ordinary Angels, the true-life drama starring Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson that shall be launched by Lionsgate on February 23. The firm will subsequent 12 months launch its Emma Roberts rom-com Space Cadet by means of Amazon Prime International and is at present in manufacturing on Anderson .Paak’s directorial debut Okay-Pops!.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios is the fan-driven world leisure and publishing arm for on-line publishers Wattpad and Webtoon, which as of July had a mixed viewers of greater than 182 million. Current initiatives within the works there embrace an animated sequence primarily based on the Webtoon sensation Lore Olympus, which has amassed greater than 1.5 billion views thus far, with The Jim Henson Company; an adaptation of the Webtoon comedian Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell with Imagine Entertainment; Hawk, with MCU scribe Christopher Yost, primarily based on the sci-fi Wattpad webnovel; Deanna Cameron’s webnovel thriller What Happened That Night, tailored by Children of Men‘s David Arata; and Float, starring Robbie Amell and Andrea Bang, with Lionsgate, Collective Pictures, and Brightlight Pictures.
Borsiczky is represented by A3 Artists Agency, supervisor Rick Lefitz, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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