Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. The Twilight Saga producers, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, will produce. A brilliant re-imagining of Les Miserables, the series is set to be a global film sensation as CBS films have acquired rights to the trilogy. Perfect for all YA fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. The Rose Society, the second book in the planned Young Elites trilogy, is scheduled for release in 2015.Prodigy by Marie Lu is the long-awaited sequel to Legend, THE must-read dystopian thriller novel. Fox and Temple Hill Entertainment bought the movie rights shortly after the novel’s publication. The Young Elites, the first novel of Lu’s hotly anticipated second series, departs from Lu’s dystopian beginnings but promises to be as popular. With 1984 being a foundational pillar of the dystopian genre, one might imagine Lu’s prowess for writing dystopian stories was ordained. An interesting coincidence is Lu's birth year being the same as the title of George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984. Lu’s work stands out amongst a bevy of dystopian novels and series. Since then, Legend and its two sequels Prodigy and Champion, have made Lu a household name among teenagers and adults.
Legend attracted attention almost immediately - CBS Films bought the movie rights before it was even published. Lu started writing as a young girl, and she wrote novels for 12 years before Legend, her first book accepted for publication, hit bookshelves in 2011. She has said in interviews that certain elements of Legend, such as the Skiz fights, were inspired by her love of gaming. Lu originally considered becoming a lawyer, but she ended up taking a job as an art director for a video game company. She went to college at the University of Southern California, where she studied political science.
In 1989, Lu and her family moved to the United States, settling in Texas. On a walk with her aunt, 5-year-old Lu witnessed tanks and soldiers preparing for what would become the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Her mother lived through repression by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution. Although Lu moved the United States at age 5, her early life in China greatly influenced her work. Marie Lu was born in Beijing, China in 1984.
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