Oh Gosh. Sparkly Vampires wasn’t enough.

(Sorry, haven’t read the twilight series, and don’t intend to… It’s perfectly fine that some folks like it.. But I’m sorry, real Vampires don’t sparkle…. Just like real Zombies can’t run beat a marathon sprinter….)

JoBlo is reporting that Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to deveope & direct the Maximum Ride movies… Based, obviously off the Maximum Ride books. The first two books are good escapism fantasy… I haven’t had a chance to read the 3rd book, but according to my wife & mother-in-law, the 3rd book is too preachy regarding environmentalism…..

Hardwicke rides again – Apparently Catherine Hardwicke loves young-adult fantasy series. After directing that TWILIGHT movie everybody went apeshit for, Hardwicke is now in talks to develop and direct a film adaptation of ‘Maximum Ride’, another epic tale about hot boys and girls with special powers. Instead of blood-sucking vampires, the teenagers in this series are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. They…
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(Via JoBlo’s Movie Emporium News.)