50 YA Books We Want Adapted to the Big or Small Screen

Cover of Marie Lu’s The Midnight Star. Image via publisher G.P. Putnam’s Books for Young Readers.

37. The Young Elites

This series just concluded last year with The Midnight Star, although Fox snapped the rights up in 2015, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In other words, the hopes are high that this might actually come onto the silver screen eventually.

Marie Lu’s The Young Elites as a series starts with the book of the same name, which introduces Adelina Amouteru, who gets plenty of points just for having a comic-book-style alliterative name. That’s to say nothing of her missing eye and scars, which are products of her battle with a blood fever. Although some, like her father, see her as nothing but an abomination, others see opportunity — and power. They’re the Young Elites, and they are coming.

The series does feature one female and two male major characters, and of course, the boys each have an agenda. For Teren, it’s destroying the Young Elites. For Enzo, it’s finding his fellow Elites and helping them before they can be found out. However, Adelina has an agenda of her own, and she’s going to carry it out whatever the cost.

Keep an eye on this one. Although nothing’s happened since the rights purchase, that could change, especially now since the series is done.