Within the next few years, you can safely expect to see just about every film genre reworked for teens — the last few that haven’t already been fed into the Teen Machine will be lined up right quick. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, necessarily. Skewing a film young doesn’t mean it will be crap as an absolute, by any means. But when is a teen movie not a teen movie? When the studio responsible buys a young lit property and then skews the character ages up into their 20s. When every other project lately is about skewing ages down, that’s a bit confusing. The reason for all that preamble is that Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Heist Society , a young-lit novel that will be published next week.
Original Source of Warner Brothers Options Heist Society, a “Thomas Crown Affair for Teens”; Ironically, The Thomas Crown Affair 2 Also Moves Foward