David Slade recently had to back out of Fox’s reboot of Daredevil due to his commitments to the planned TV series about Hannibal Lecter, but he’s now looking to the future and has beaten out several other directors to make the adaptation Matched for Walt Disney Pictures, according to Deadline.
The project is an adaptation of Ally Condie’s young adult novel, published in 2010 as the first part of a trilogy. The story is set in a futuristic world where government officials tell people how to live their lives, with everything from what books they should read to what people they should fall in love with. The plot revolves around a young woman who turns down her appointed romance to forge her own path.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows writers Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney are adapting the novel, with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot producing. It isn’t known when it might shoot.