Exciting news for Amie Kaufman this week! She and her co-writer Jay Kristoff have just signed a deal to have their book Illuminae adapted to the big screen by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B Entertainment.

Plan B Entertainment are responsible for World War Z and Twelve Years a Slave.

Illuminae is the first book in the The Illuminae Files trilogy, which was released on October 20th, and immediately shot to number 3 on the The New York Times’ Young Adult Hardcover Bestseller list.

To read more, visit the Sydney Morning Herald

To read more about Illuminae, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/illuminae/index.php