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WORD: Ally Carter novel launches as Hollywood production moves forward

Ally Carter’s new young adult novel I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You is now in bookstores after its launch on Monday (May 1), and the prolific author has a second reason to celebrate: her novel is on the fast track to becoming a film.

Walt Disney Pictures hired Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard to write the screenplay, and tapped Debra Martin Chase to produce the film version of Kill You, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which didn’t state which actors may be lined up. "To my knowledge, we don’t have actors or directors on board yet," Carter told WORD’N’BASS.com.

As WORD’N’BASS.com previously reported, Disney had optioned the film rights to Kill You through a pre-empt, from deal-makers Sarah Self and Amy Schiffman of The Gersh Agency, after reviewing just two chapters and an outline.

Kill You is about a 15-year-old girl who attends an elite spy-training academy in Washington and must deal with the mystery surrounding the death of her CIA agent father and a cute, "off-limits civilian boy" who doesn’t know her true identity.

Carter’s third book, the adult novel Learning to Play Gin, is slated for publication in December. Literary agent Kristin Nelson handled all of her novels.

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