Maximum Ride a book series aimed at young adults and now it is being adapted to the big screen.
Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer) has been tapped to adapt for the big screen. The story revolves around six young children who have been genetically mutated so that 2 percent of their DNA is of a bird, which enables them to fly. They escape their secret government testing lair and are hunted down by “Erasers”, who are part human and part wolf.
Maximum Ride just sounds like the wrong name for this project. At first instinct I thought this was going to be about cars or something that you RIDE, but after reading the synopsis I see that is not the case. The main character’s name is Max Ride. Guess you can’t pick the name you are born with.
And apparently all it takes is to alter 2% of the human DNA to make it possible to GROW WINGS! I would have thought it would be more than that, but they are pretty specific it is just 2%.
The series is aimed at a younger adult crowd (read: Late teens) so maybe thats why the hook just isnt grabbing me.
Avi Arad is producing, so perhaps that’s why it has a little bit of Mutants vs Mutants vibe going on and I am normally down for that, but this just misses the mark for me.
Have any of the International Friends read any of these books? Is the story any good?
