[adrotate banner=”1″]Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke looks like she’ll be directing a movie based on the book series Maximum Ride, which is about bird kids that are chased by wolf people. Yeah. And the main character’s name is Maximum Ride, so there.
Wikipedia tells us: The plot follows the adventures of Maximum Ride (more commonly known as Max), a headstrong fourteen year-old, and her group of human-avian hybrids, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy (Gasman), and Angel (otherwise known as the Flock), who have been the subjects of experiments leaving them 98% human and 2% avian. I guess 2% bird is enough to fly—IN STUPID LAND!

I can’t imagine this being any good at all, but that won’t stop Sony! Also note how it took two people to write three paragraphs about this story for the Hollywood Reporter.

Catherine Hardwicke eyes ‘Maximum Ride’
By Borys Kit and Gregg Kilday
Catherine Hardwicke is in talks with Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct a film adaptation of another young-adult fantasy series, “Maximum Ride.”

The five-volume series by James Patterson chronicles six teens, known as the Flock, who are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. Learning to fly, they escape the laboratory where they have been housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf.

Don Payne (“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”) is writing a screenplay.