And with a male protagonist and a heavy emphasis on sports, it might be able to draw in some of the young male audience that has proved so elusive for these kinds of movies. (He is also a producer on the in- development adaptation of “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle,” a far less often challenged young adult classic.) “Staying Fat” seems to be a pretty good fit, thematically and tonally, for the kinds of teen dramas that are being made, these days. Koch’s most recent production, “Very Good Girls,” deals with two girls who are determined to lose their virginity before they go to college. So does “The Hunger Games,” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” another teen classic that was recently adapted into film starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman.
“Fault” is not a frequently challenged book, but author John Green’s debut novel “Looking For Alaska,” which shares similar themes, consistently makes the American Library Association’s Top Ten Banned Books list. (Crutcher’s books are challenged so often that he keeps a running list of banning attempts on his website–he’s up to 35 attempts since 1995.) “Staying Fat” speaks frankly about abortion and suicide, among other hot-button issues.īut in this post-“The Fault in our Stars” era, movie-goers may be prepared for darker content in their teen movies. It’s unclear why a movie never materialized there are plenty of possible reasons, but it may have been due to the novel’s controversial content. First published in 1993, “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes” is considered by some a young adult classic–but like many young adult classics, it’s also a frequent target of censors. A version of the project was set up at Riverrock Entertainment Group in 2004, with a script by Joan V. This is not the first attempt to bring Crutcher’s novel to the big screen.
(The novel’s eyebrow-raising title refers to Eric’s attempts to stay overweight after he became an athlete, so that Sarah wouldn’t feel left behind.) When Sarah suddenly stops speaking, and is hospitalized, Eric must get to the bottom of his best friend’s secrets, or risk losing her forever. The novel follows a high school athlete, Eric, who forged a close friendship in his childhood with a girl named Sarah Byrnes, because both were outcasts–Eric because of his weight, and Sarah because of the terrible burn scars on her face and hands. David Field and Andrew Rubin are writing the adaptation. Producer Howard Koch is developing Chris Crutcher’s teen novel STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES for the screen.
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