Vadim Perelman has signed on to adapt and direct 20th Century Fox's adaptation of Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel
The Giver, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The story centers on Jonas, a 12-year-old boy living in an idyllic future society where all memory of human history has been erased. His life is thrown into turmoil when he is designated to inherit the role of the Giver -- the sole keeper of the vast range of human emotions.