“‘Need’ is a fan favorite YA novel that we know will make for an exciting and chilling look at the world of social media,” said Covert CEO Paul Hanson. But Kaylee and the other students slowly begin to find out that there is a high - possibly fatal - price to pay for getting everything they want.” The story follows Kaylee, who needs only one thing - a kidney for her younger brother. “Need,” THR writes, “is set at a Wisconsin high school, where students engage in a new social networking site that grants their every desire. The filmmaking duo is behind the Peabody Award-winning feature documentary “Best Kept Secret.” Covert Media is financing and producing “Need.” Ready or not…it's Graduation Day.Joelle Charbonneau’s young adult thriller novel “Need” is getting the big screen adaptation treatment, and thankfully those in power have secured a female writing-directing team for the task.Īs The Hollywood Reporter writes out of the American Film Market, Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann have been selected to write and direct the film. Who can Cia trust? The stakes are higher than ever-lives of promise cut short or fulfilled a future ruled by fear or hope-in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau's epic Testing trilogy. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for - but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves-and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. Gifted student and Testing survivor, Cia Vale, vows to fight.īut she can't do it alone. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. She wants to put an end to the Testing: In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle? In book three of the Testing series, the United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good.

Need by joelle charbonneau