Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the duo behind critically acclaimed drama "Half Nelson," have signed on to adapt teen novel "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" for Miramax. Scott Rudin is producing.
The novel, written by Marisha Pessl and published in August, centers on a teenage girl who, after spending years of high school moving each semester with her eccentric teacher father, settles in a small North Carolina town for her senior year. There she becomes part of an upper-crust social set called the Bluebloods and gets caught up in the mysterious death of their favorite teacher.