Scott Westerfeld ’s YA trilogy about kid bear at midnight who can take the air around during the 25th hour of the day , when the rest of the universe is still , is once again being germinate as a potential telecasting serial publication . This time around , it ’s the creators of Chuck , Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz , and they ’re trying to pitch Midnighters to Fox . This prison term around , Fedak is the sole writer , with Schwartz in a bring on electrical capacity .
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Over onWesterfeld ’s own blog , he signal out that Fedak and Schwartz just have a “ script commitment , ” meaning they ’ll write a pilot script and see what befall . But if all goes well , this show could be on the air as shortly as fall 2013 . Westerfeld ’s not in person need — he has “ less control over Midnighters than my other “ properties , ” for reasons too boring to go into here . ”
This is thethird attemptto make a Midnighters TV show . The first was produced by Charmed ’s Brad Kern , for the CW half a dozen class ago — andWesterfeld was unhappywith Kern ’s conclusion to “ age up ” the main characters to their mid - mid-twenties . The second attempt happen a few years afterwards , when former Tru Calling author Chad Hodgetried to adapt the books into a serial publication for NBC .
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So … will the third time be the appeal ? And will the characters stay stripling ? ( As Westerfeldpointed out back in 2007 , “ Twenty - six year old who . . . stay up till midnight ! ” does n’t have the same ring as adolescent sneaking around in the blue 60 minutes . [ Deadline ]
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