{"id":15960,"date":"2011-08-26T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T22:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15960"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T22:17:39","slug":"universal-puts-wicked-lovely-adaption-into-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/26\/universal-puts-wicked-lovely-adaption-into-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Puts WICKED LOVELY Adaption Into Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/WickedLovelyBookCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15961\" title=\"WickedLovelyBookCover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/WickedLovelyBookCover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Universal Studios has decided to drop development of <strong>Wicked Lovely<\/strong>, an adaption of Melissa Marr\u2019s best-selling series of novels. The film was the project of Vince Vaughn\u2019s Wild West Picture Shows Productions and had Mary Harron attached as a director and Caroline Thompson working on the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/universal-dumps-big-project-wicked-227951\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/em>, the studio was passing because it felt that \u201cthe project doesn\u2019t suit their needs.\u201d That\u2019s a curious statement, as I think right now, the kind of project that Universal needs is one that would be a hit. Actually, it could use quite a few of those types of projects. And <em>Wicked Lovely<\/em>, with a story centering on a teenage girl who has the ability to see into the fairy world around us, sounds like it could appeal to the <em>Twilight<\/em> crowd who will be looking for something new after that film franchise wraps up later next year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second project that Universal has dumped this week. Earlier this week, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/universal-drops-hasbro-ouija-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">cut loose<\/a> <strong>Ouija<\/strong>, one of the films being developed as part of a deal with toy manufacturer Hasbro. Other recent projects that the studio has passed on include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/universal-drops-hasbro-ouija-film\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/a> and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s <strong>At The Mountains Of Madness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The planned book adaption is the second film the studio has dropped this week.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/26\/universal-puts-wicked-lovely-adaption-into-turnaround\/\" title=\"Universal Puts WICKED LOVELY Adaption Into Turnaround\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4254,4253,4252],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-caroline-thompson","9":"tag-mary-harron","10":"tag-wicked-lovely"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15960"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}