{"id":860,"date":"2016-12-14T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/undergrad-students-publishing\/?p=860"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:00:55","slug":"best-selling-private-series-to-become-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/2016\/12\/14\/best-selling-private-series-to-become-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Best-Selling Private Series to Become a Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cynthia Ayala \/\/ Blog Writer<\/p>\n

\"Private\"
by Kate Brian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years, novels have been getting second lives on the big screen. Now, another Young Adult bestselling series is joining the club. Make way for Private<\/i>, the 14-novel-long, bestselling series by Kate Brian, which follows one Reed Brennan as she enters a boarding school that contains hidden dangers.<\/p>\n

This wouldn\u2019t be the first time that the Private<\/em> series has been adapted to the screen. Private<\/em> was once made into a 20 episode web series back in 2009, which was later compressed into a one and a half hour long movie. The web series covered the series\u2019 first arc comprised of\u00a0Private<\/i>,\u00a0Invitation Only<\/i>,\u00a0Untouchable<\/i>, and\u00a0Confessions<\/i>. Needless to say, Alloy Entertainment took many liberties with the adaptation and the result left it dull. They missed the mark in trying to compress 4 novels into 20 15-minute episodes, sacrificing a lot of character development and relationships. The first thing wrong was that the casting was off. It had notable celebrities such as Kelsey Sanders, Tristin Mays, Chord Overstreet and Brant Daugherty. But the problem was they didn\u2019t fit the characters, or just didn\u2019t understand the characters. There was also a lack of chemistry between the actors that made watching it just awkward.<\/p>\n

Second, compressing the story, compressing four books into one thing, means that a lot – between character dynamics and story development – is going to be lost if not done right. When you have two elements that are so essential for adaptation go so wrong, it\u2019s not going to be good. Here\u2019s hoping Warner Bros., who acquired the film rights, will be able to remedy everything that was wrong in the web-series.<\/p>\n

But the real question: will it even work?<\/p>\n

The Private <\/i>series is a long series that contains 2 prequel novels and 6 spin-off novels. So there\u2019s a lot of material here that is going to get lost in movie adaptations. Sometimes books can work so well as a TV series, and done right, Private <\/i>can do that because one of the challenges is making sure that the important part of the novels aren\u2019t lost like they were in the web-series. Maybe fans can just chock it up to poor adapting, but condensing 4 books into one movie, it\u2019s not going to work out too well.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s unclear how Stacy Rukeyser, a writer and executive producer on Lifetime\u2019s breakout series\u00a0UnREAL<\/i>, will adapt the franchise, or how Warner Bros. will want to adapt it. They could adapt 2 books into a movie, or they could scrap it all together and go with the TV show idea. But what they should make sure is that they do it the right way. Personally, I\u2019m in favor of the TV show route because that would allow it to incorporate the prequels and the spin-offs while creating a cohesive show.<\/p>\n

But as of right now, we don\u2019t know much about the project other than the fact that Alloy\u2019s own Les Morgenstein from Vampire Diaries<\/i> and Elysa Dutton from Idiocracy<\/i> will be producing the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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