Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following the success of the romantic comedy The Kissing Booth, Netflix and Joey King have found their next project to collaborate on as King has signed on to star and exec produce an adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s International best-selling-dystopian fantasy novel Uglies.
McG, whose recent films have all been for Netflix, has signed on to direct.The story is set in a world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty.
Sources say King has long been a fan of the series and was aggressive in pursuing the lead role once Netflix acquired the rights to the novel.
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