Hollywood's love affair with YA fiction is no secret, so when it comes to the latest big-news option of a beloved teen book, we're just surprised this one took so long:Hollywood Reporter has word today that Ineffable Pictures has officially snagged the rights to Colleen Houck's "Tiger's Curse," the first of a literary series that might just be our next big obsession in supernatural interspecies romance. (Assuming that sexy shifter Sam Merlotte doesn't get his own "True Blood" spin-off, of course.)
"Tiger's Curse" is the story of 17 year-old orphan Kelsey Hayes, who begins working at a traveling circus only to discover that the performing white tiger is actually (all together now!) a prince in disguise. Specifically, a heart-meltingly hot Indian prince who can only take human form for a paltry 20-ish minutes per day. But while this might sound like standard fairy-tale fare, don't be looking for a quick, beauty-and-the-beast resolution to this shapeshifting conundrum: The first book saw Kelsey jetting off to India on a quest to lift her beloved's curse, and with only two of the projected five "Tiger" books yet released, this story could still go anywhere.
The studio aims to start production on the first film by 2013, but it's never too early to start keeping an eye out for any fun speculation or hinty hints about who might be playing the lead roles, particularly that of the Indian prince. Could megahotties Sendhil Ramamurthy or Hrithik Roshan be contenders for the leading cat... er, man? Or will the role be a career-making break for some as-yet-unknown actor?
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