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

RKO Pictures is branching into television, obtaining the screen privileges to some youthful adult novel entitled False Memory using the goal to build up a TV adaptation. The debut novel by Serta Krokos is going to be released by Disney*Hyperion in November 2012. It's the very first book of the planned trilogy. False Memory follows four buddies with supernatural forces, elevated to become soldiers, who escape their government training facility looking for an ordinary teenage existence. RKO's Kevin Cornish recognized what he saw like a deluge of YA genre books being furiously developed as features within the wake of the prosperity of The Twilight Saga and (Lionsgate hopes) The Hunger Games. The posting world is investing up to seven figures to get the books, while galleries spend almost the same amount for that movie privileges. "The systems aren't as oversaturated because the galleries, by starting TV, this can differentiate False Memory in the other projects," states Cornish, who'll behave as professional producer with RKO's Vanessa Coifman. "This can also let us fill the space within the teen sci-fi market produced by shows like Smallville going from the air." The duo has become ending up in showrunners. Krokos is repped by Pouya Shahbazian of FinePrint Literary Management. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package