Columbia Pictures To Film ‘Maximum Ride’

Variety is reporting that Avi Arad’s Seaside Entertainment and Columbia Pictures have acquired the screen rights to James Patterson’s popular young adult novel series Maximum Ride. Patterson’s long-running saga (a fifth volume is due in 2009) centers around six kids who have been genetically altered with avian genes that allow them to fly. When the kids escape from the hidden laboratory in which they are confined, their scientist creators send a gang of “erasers,” humans who have been altered by the addition of wolf genes, after them. Read more