According to Western media reports, Ben Affleck has found the next directorial project for himself. It will be a cycle of teenage fantasy novels Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger. Disney will be producing the film, and Affleck will also co-write.
The works are dedicated to a girl named Sophie, who has the skills of telepathy. According to the plot, the heroine learns that she comes from another world that exists in parallel with the human.
Deadline noted that the series has sold 2.5 million copies, and the latest book in the series, Unlocked, won the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Reader Book of the Year.
In the director’s career Affleck already has several films, including “City of Thieves”, “Operation Argo” “. Ben is also preparing to shoot “Army of Ghosts” , about which nothing has been heard for a long time.