The Amazon description for the book begins: “With all the perfectly lovely young adult novels out there, you decided to check this one out? It’s got spontaneously combusting teenagers in it, dude. Langford stars as Mara Carlye, a senior in high school whose classmates are exploding spontaneously. Spontaneous will be produced by Matt Kaplan and Max Siemers of Awesomeness Films with Nicki Cortese from Jurassic Party Productions. Langford was just nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in 13 Reasons Why. He wrote and directed Vivien Hasn’t Been Herself Lately. Spontaneous comes from writer/director Brian Duffield, writer of Insurgent, Jane Got a Gun and The Babysitter. The book was a TIME magazine Top 10 YA & Children’s Book for 2016 and an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection. The film will be based on the young adult novel Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer.
(Aug.13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford to star in fantasy sci-fi film Spontaneousġ3 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford is set to star in the fantasy sci-fi film Spontaneous, according to Deadline. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. This aside, Starmer (the Riverman trilogy) adeptly uses his bloody, madcap premise to heighten just how much of life is out of our control, and how important it is to seize whatever time we’re given. Her lengthy internal monologues, while entertaining, can frustrate the story’s momentum and make Mara seem more like an observer and chronicler of the mayhem, rather than a participant, despite her proximity to several of the explosions. Mara’s blunt, sarcastic narration is well-matched to the absurdity of the plot, and while it’s tempting to think of it as a defense mechanism in response to an unbelievable situation, it seems clear that this is just who Mara is. Is it terrorism? A curse? At the heart of Starmer’s story is Mara Carlyle, a senior who witnesses the first combustion up close in precalc. Seniors at Covington High School are spontaneously combusting in one gloriously gory explosion after another, and it doesn’t take long for the FBI to descend on the New Jersey town to figure out what is going on.
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