Another Futuristic Young Adult Novel ‘Insignia’ Gets Film Adaptation

With all of the highly anticipated films left to debut in 2012, it’s easy for us to put The Hunger Games in our rearview and set our sights toward the next big thing. But Hollywood studio heads aren’t as interested in what might become a phenomenon as in what already has, and it’s hard to ignore the financial results of what the film based on Suzanne Collins’ book was able to achieve, especially with younger audiences. So not that this is much of a surprise, but Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox has scooped up the film rights to a planned trilogy (of course it is) based on Insignia, the futuristic young adult novel by S.J. Kincaid. The story follows a 14-year-old gamer named Tom Raines who is recruited into an elite military training academy that wants to hone his skills for use in World War III. He’s got girls, …