BOOKS ABOUT TO BECOME MOVIES
KING DORK by Frank Portman
Status: In pre-production, set for release sometime in 2014
Who’s involved: Thomas Mann, Nick Offerman (in talks), D.V. DeVincentis (writing), Matt Piedmont (directing)
Why you should read the book: King Dork is a funny little mystery filled with self-deprecating humour and witty observations that occasionally uses comedy as a front for heartbreak. Tom Henderson, otherwise known as Chi-Mo, is a high school student who is having problems at home and hasn’t quite figured out how to manoeuvre through the social hierarchy of his school. In his spare time he enjoys ranking the greatest rock bands of all time, attempting to fit callipygous into sentences, and coming up with creative names for the band he’s started with his only friend, Sam. After discovering a strange clue in an old copy of Catcher in the Rye, Chi-Mo stumbles into a mystery surrounding his father’s death. Portman’s book may be a YA novel, but its themes are universal and its dialogue is crisp--the type of book that can't be put down once it is picked up.
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