The John Hughes’ legacy lives on. After fan appreciation week since his death, Miramax Films is putting a project together that seems to takes its cues from Sixteen Candles. The Variety blurb tells us that author Ernessa Carter had her novel 32 Candles optioned by the indie unit.
This is a fairy tale about an ugly duckling from a Mississippi town who escapes to Los Angeles. The novel’s central character reinvents herself as a beautiful lounge singer and runs into her high school crush; unaware of her true identity, he finds himself as in love with her as she once was with him.
Carter is a blogger at www.fierceandnerdy.com and apparently comes across as a Hughes-Molly Ringwald fan – she apparently penned another book called “Molly Ringwald Ending.”
