Even before the Twilight Saga wrapped up with Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Hollywood found itself struggling to cash in on the craze for young adult supernatural romance. Pointed attempts such as Beastly and Red Riding Hood have been met with mixtures of disinterest and derision, and no one has yet recreated the strange alchemy that sent Twilight to the top of the charts.
Now, production company LD Entertainment has cast its hat into the monster-lovin’ ring with an adaptation of the popular YA novel series Hush, Hush. Detailing the courtship between a high school girl and a fallen angel, Hush, Hush looks to rather explicitly borrow from the mold of Twilight in its combination of teen romance and otherworldly themes.
LD Entertainment has purchased the film rights to the Hush, Hush Saga, written by Becca Fitzpatrick. The novels’ optioning comes just months after the publication of the fourth and last book in the series, Finale. LD Entertainment is best known for its recent production of off-kilter films such as The Grey, The Collection, and Killer Joe. Patrick Sean Smith (Greek) has been tapped to pen the adaptation of Hush, Hush.
The novel Hush, Hush centers on a high school sophomore named Nora Grey, who finds herself increasingly entangled with local bad-boy Patch Cipriano. As she finds herself more and more infatuated with the scarred young man, Nora discovers that he is actually a fallen angel who has been tasked with killing her because of her unique bloodline. When Patch ends up smitten with Nora, other angelic assassins are sent to finish the job.
With four novels to work with and a proven demographic of interested viewers, it’s obvious that LD Entertainment hopes to make Hush, Hush something of a tentpole franchise. Though not quite the blockbuster titan that was the Twilight series, the Hush, Hush Saga has sold millions of copies worldwide, thus setting up a guaranteed fanbase even before a single frame of movie has been shot. As such, LD’s decision to acquire the rights to the novels is a solid – though not necessarily guaranteed – investment.
At the same time, one must address the rather overwhelming elephant in the room: by almost any metric, the summary of Hush, Hush makes it sound like a blatant Twilight rip-off. A scan of the first novel’s summary does little to dispel the notion – most of the structure, dramatic beats, and even the climax mirror the original Twilight to a disturbing degree. While these similarities may only be superficial, they may also end up turning off anyone who isn’t already familiar with the series. As such, the finished film product could very well be a fans-only affair.
All this said, it’s too early in Hush, Hush‘s development to cast any kind of judgment on the production. LD Entertainment’s reputation for getting behind creatively adventurous and/or jarring pictures could mean that, for all its “me-too” similarity to Twilight, the adaptation of Hush, Hush could be a refreshingly dark take on the bloated supernatural romance genre.
Hush, Hush currently has no projected release date.
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Source: LD Entertainment
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Void “left” by the Twilight saga? I though the saga was, in and of itself, a “void”.
Ahhh Jeff #1
I agree!
Surprised?
ANother useless waste of money. Why not spending that money on adapting a good book like The Dark Tower or even a good graphic novel like Locke and Key??
Twilight and Hush, Hush are very different. Having read both sets, I much prefer Hush, hush and I know other fans would be estatic.
I know I’m not the target audience for these sorts of things but why is it always the female in these sorts of stories that’s a normal person needing to be saved and the guy being the demon/angel/god/alien/Ompa-Loompah that fights things and is smitten with her?
She’s not normal lol. You would know that if you read the story…
I’m pretty excited for this, and I wouldn’t even begin to compare it with Twilight. The story is very different, even if the idea of a teen romance is the same. You could say that every romcom movie has the exact same premise. I think if they do this right (eg. without Kristen Stewart) it can be a pretty good series. I’m also really looking forward to City of Bones, which is based off another teen book series, same supernatural genre with teen romance, but again a different story.
Hush, Hush is way too different compared to Twilight. The 4 books are good. I assure you. I’m just hyped to watch it on big screen. But I hope that they’ll adapt the book very good.
it all comes down to how good the cast and the director would interpret and materialize the book.
This is horrible…hush hush is my favorite book and I don’t want it getting ruined by turning it into a movie.
I haven’t heard of Hush, Hush before this, but the whole premise sounds a lot like City of Angels.
It’s that the structure of the book Hush, Hush is very similar to the first Twilight novel. At least the first half is. However, the main difference is the fact that the Hush, Hush characters are far more interesting than the Twilight character.
It’s true that the structure of the book Hush, Hush is very similar to the first Twilight novel. At least the first half is. However, the main difference is the fact that the Hush, Hush characters are far more interesting than the Twilight character.
This book series is absolutely NOTHING like the twilight series!!!!!
Twilight: sparkling vampires
Hush Hush: hot sexy, badboy angels
Similar?! NO IT ISNT!!!! And it most certainly isnt a rip-off of twilight!!
crepusculo es totalmente diferente a hush hush, ademas las dos son buenas novelas, esperemos que hush hush sea buena en la pantalla grande, y que escojan a unos buenos actores que les guste al publico en general, yo personalmente digo que la peli va a ser buena debe serlo la trama es buena
the book itself is really good i mean i read both series (twilight and hush) but i like hush hush more. like what everyone said it may look the same at the beginning but i can assure you Nora here takes good part on the action, unlike how Bella is in twilight (no offense), which makes making her the main role seems logical.