Fake Empire books 'Madman's Daughter'

Aguirre-Sacasa"Glee" co-producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is within foretells adapt Megan Shepherd's approaching youthful adult novel "Madman's Daughter" for Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire banner.The medieval thriller, the first inside a planned trilogy of books, is going to be released in The month of january by HarperCollins' Balzer + Bray imprint. Vital Pictures optioned it for Fake Empire last August.Schwartz and Savage will produce via Fake Empire, while Lis Rowinski, who runs the shingle's film business, introduced the project in.Aguirre-Sacasa is really a versatile scribe who's active in film, TV and theater, in addition to comics. He rewrote it for that Broadway show "Spider Guy: Switch Off the Dark" and it has been broadly credited with making the show successful. He lately completed the script for MGM/Screen Gems' remake of "Barbara," in line with the Stephen King novel. Additionally to becoming a co-producer on Fox's hit series "Glee," that he composed this season's episode "The Very First Time,Inch Aguirre-Sacasa also co-authored the very first season of Marvel's new "Fantastic Four" comic with David Marquez.Best referred to as banner behind the CW's hit series "Gossip Girl," Fake Empire's first film, "Fun Size," hits theaters in October. Additionally to creating with Savage, Schwartz directed the pic from the script by Max Werner. Fake Empire is presently developing "Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick," "Allow it to Snow," "The Luxe" and also the Savage-scripted "The Likeness."Aguirre-Sacasa is repped by WME. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com