Many people will remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books from their youth, where at the end of each page you got to pick what you wanted to happen next, and then had to turn to the right page to read on. Well, now THR reports that 20th Century Fox has teamed up with Davis Entertainment to try and bring Choose Your Own Adventure to the big screen.
Fox will retain all screen rights to the books, and will have the ability to adapt the numerous stories through multiple platforms. It doesn’t appear that any decision has been taken as to which tale they’ll adapt, or indeed if they’ll try and do something bigger based on the Choose Your Own Adventure concept (I doubt the viewer will get to choose the way the story goes, but the characters could).
More than 180 titles were released in the series, so there’s plenty of fodder for Fox to wade through. The concept was created by Edward Packard, who teamed up with R.A. Montgomery in 1975 for a series of books that allowed the reader to decide where they wanted to go with the story. Between the 70s and late-90s, over 250 million books sold worldwide.
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