A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frightening survival scenario. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can’t mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. He writes screenplays and YA fiction with his partner, Sofía, and their upcoming novel is a fun romance thriller titled Retro. The book begins when a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry as a crippling drought hits. Jarrod Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dry and Roxy. Written by National Book award winning bestselling author Neal Shusterman (whose Challenger Deep is set at Chernin and Scythe at Universal) and his son Jarrod, the novel revolves around a topical premise.

Temple Hill’s Isaac Klausner and Marty Bowen will produce, along with Trevor Engelson.

Six bidders chased this book and sources said the deal was worth six against seven figures, plus a six figure fee for the authors to write the script.

It ended when Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Dry, the thriller novel by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.EXCLUSIVE: The dry spell for material ended today with the first multi-studio auction for a hot book this year.

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