RKO Pictures Branches Into TV With Teen Adaptation 'False Memory' (Exclusive)

RKO Pictures is branching into television, acquiring the screen rights with a youthful adult novel titled False Memory while using goal to develop a TV adaptation. The debut novel by Serta Krokos will probably be launched by Disney*Hyperion in November 2012. It's the initial book from the planned trilogy. False Memory follows four pals with supernatural forces, elevated being soldiers, who escape their government training facility searching for an regular teenage existence. RKO's Kevin Cornish recognized what he saw just like a deluge of YA genre books being furiously developed as features inside the wake from the wealth from the Twilight Saga and (Lionsgate hopes) The Hunger Games. The posting world is trading as many as seven figures to find the books, while art galleries spend almost exactly the same amount for your movie rights. "The systems aren't as oversaturated since the art galleries, by beginning TV, this could differentiate False Memory within the other projects," states Cornish, who'll become professional producer with RKO's Vanessa Coifman. "This could also let's fill the area inside the teen sci-fi market created by shows like Smallville going in the air." The duo is becoming winding up in showrunners. Krokos is repped by Pouya Shahbazian of FinePrint Literary Management. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package