Snow White turned out to be a big boost for the careers of Lily Collins and Sam Claflin, with both recently starring in vastly different adaptations of the classic fairy tale. That success helped them secure roles in two of this year's more eagerly awaited young adult adaptations, with Collins taking the lead in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and Claflin landing the plum Finnick Odair gig in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Now their parallel paths will finally converge in an adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's novel, Love, Rosie.
The story, mostly chronicled in epistolary form ala The Perks of Being a Wallflower, follows Alex and Rosie, two Irish best friends who decide to go to college in America. However, they are separated when she gets pregnant and is forced to stay behind. Their lives head down different paths at that point, but they keep in touch through letters, email, and instant messages over the next twelve years.Juliette Towhid (Calendar Girls) will adapt the script for Christian Ditter (Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods) to direct. Ahern also wrote the similar-themed P.S. I Love You, and developed the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? I'm still trying to figure out whether there's more to Collins or not. She was decent in Mirror Mirror but pretty lifeless elsewhere. Claflin, on the other hand, is a total bore. Catching Fire will go a long way in showing us if there's any real charisma there.
Production on Love, Rosie begins in May.
