Author M.T. Anderson’s popular 2002 dystopian YA novel Feed is getting the feature film treatment, and it’s said to be one of the most acclaimed YA novels from the past two decades.
20th Century Studios has picked up the rights to the novel and they went ahead and hired Stanley Kalu to write and direct it. Kalu is a 25-year-old Nigerian filmmaker who recently graduated from USC. Zachary Green will produce.
Feed was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time, and the story is set in “a future dystopian America, where internet connections feed directly into the consumer’s brain. The plot centers on the unfolding love story between Titus Gray, an average kid on a weekend trip to the moon, and Violet Durn, a brainy girl who has decided to try to fight the feed.”
This is the official description from the book:
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
Feed is set up through Kalu and Green’s newly launched Bantu Inc. banner, whose mission is “to produce socially relevant films from diverse filmmakers, to create impactful social change through the medium of film and television.”
I have not read Feed, but it sounds like an interesting story that has the makings of a good film. We’ll just have to wait and see what comes of it.
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