One Thousand Percent Lunar Boy

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Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelevs banner has acquired feature film rights to Stephen Tunney's young adult novel "One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy" and tapped Edward Ricourt ("Now You See Me") to adapt the sci-fi tale.The book combines a visually inventive world with a powerful coming-of-age story about a boy finding his place in the universe.
Set 2000 years in the future, novel's protag is 16-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, who lives on the now-colonized moon, where he meets a girl from Earth who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special -- some say dangerous -- condition, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter.
Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff will produce for Bazelevs, while Guy Stodel ("Be Kind Rewind") will exec produce. Project is being financed through Bazelevs' independent development fund.
Bekmambetov is currently in post-production with 20th Century Fox's adaptation of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which Wolkoff exec produced.
Ricourt wrote "Year 12" for Roth Films and co-wrote Summit's magician heist pic "Now You See Me" with Boaz Yakin. He also adapted the satirical survival guide "How to Defeat Your Own Clone" for Dimension.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048472

Two thousand years in the future, the Moon has become a run-down experiment in terraforming and colonization with a dusty patina and a bright red sky. To sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, it is the only world he has ever known until he meets a girl from Earth called Windows Falling on Sparrows, who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special--some say dangerous--condition. Hieronymus is a One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy who can see the fourth primary color, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter. To look into his eyes will cause madness or even death, authorities say, so he is forced to wear goggles at all times. The color of his eyes is against Lunar law, and some say against nature. After breaking the Moon s most serious law and exposing his eyes to the curious young Earth girl, Hieronymus embarks on a tremendous misadventure to protect his friends and save his family, and to escape exile and imprisonment on the far side of the moon.