With The Hunger Games series coming to a close next year, Lionsgate have signalled towards Jeanne Ryan’s novel Nerve as the latest promising YA property, with Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman signing on to direct. The synopsis for Nerve is as follows:
“When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At first it’s exhilarating–Vee and Ian’s fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn when they’re directed to a secret location with five other players for the Grand Prize round. Suddenly they’re playing all or nothing, with their lives on the line. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?”
Joost and Schulman are currently in pre-production on an untitled thriller for Blumhouse, so it can be expected that Nerve will be their next film.
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Originally published February 12, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
