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©Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking team known as Radio Silence, will bring “Choose Your Own Adventure,” the popular children’s gamebook series, to the big screen for 20th Century Studios.
The duo will work with “Andor” and “The Disaster Artist” screenwriter Tom Bissell on the project. The books were nonlinear and allowed readers to select a series of different narrative options that would allow them to determine how the plot of a story would unfold. At a time before video games had come of age, the interactivity seemed revolutionary. The novels were a big hit with readers, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. It’s appropriate that 20th Century Studios is bringing this to cinemas because that’s around the era when the books were at their zenith.
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