Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films has acquired the motion picture rights to the “ghostgirl” series of young adult novels by author and filmmaker Tonya Hurley, says Variety.
Vaughn and Valerie Van Galder will team up to produce.
“ghostgirl,” published in 2008 by Little Brown and Company, “centers on a high school senior who is desperate to be popular even after her death — from choking on a Gummi Bear.” Subsequent titles have included “ghostgirl: Homecoming,” “ghostgirl: Lovesick” and a Spanish-language installment “Dia de Muertos.”
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake.
Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she’s dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn’t stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular; it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal.
If you thought high school was a matter of life or death, wait till you see just how true that is. In this satirical, yet heartfelt novel, Hurley explores the invisibility we all feel at some times and the lengths we’ll go to be seen.