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Cody takes us back to Sweet Valley High

Posted on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
by Emma Badame - Cineplex Entertainment

Attention fans of a certain age (and you know who you are)! Screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer's Body) is set to adapt (and produce) the popular Sweet Valley High books into a feature film for Universal. She confirmed the development via Twitter this evening in response to several queries from fans: "You have no idea how many b###hes I took down to do this project. I went "full Jessica." Believe it!"

Like many of us, Cody admits to being raised on the series, which focused on the lives of two blond, "perfect size six" teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, from the fictional southern California town of Sweet Valley. The attractive heroines also happened to be identical twins though their personalities were studies in opposites with Jessica generally appearing as the more manipulative yet popular one (hence Cody's quote), while Elizabeth was consistently the more bookish, practical one. Except for that one time...you know the one...with the amnesia and the nefarious Bruce Patman? I know I'm not alone in remembering this.

The Francine Pascal-created series ran from 1983 to 2003, including over 150 books published with more than 60 million copies in print, and spawned a short-lived TV version in the late '90s. Let's not discuss how many of the books I own...or the fact that I may also treasure the board game. Or the fact that I made my Dad take a picture of me in front of the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London not because of its place in history, but because it had the same name as my favourite fictional siblings.

Let's just concentrate on the fact they are making a film and leave at that.

Did you read the series? What do you think of it hitting the big screen? Do you think Cody's the right one for the job? Who do you see cast as the main characters? Let us know!

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Cody takes us back to Sweet Valley High

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