Marie Lu’s ‘Legend’ Headed to Theaters

CBS is making sure the book-to-movie magic isn’t all hogged up by Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower project by bringing us Legend, the first novel in a trilogy by Marie Lu that takes place in a dark, dystopian future.

Deadline reports that CBS Films has purchased the screen rights for Lu’s novel, which will be produced by Twilight saga producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey under their Temple Hill banner. Marie Lu will be involved with scripting as an executive producer.

According to Lu’s website, the book, which comes out in November 2011, “takes place in a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations. It tells the story of a famous 15-year old boy criminal and the 15-year old girl prodigy hired to hunt him down. When their paths cross, the truth they uncover together will become legend.”

Lu describes the book as “Catch Me If You Can meets The Hunger Games.”

CBS is also working with Warner Brothers to bring Stephen King’s The Stand to the big screen.