A prequel, The First To Die At the End, was published Oct. Globally, the novel has surpassed the latest Twilight book as the #1 YA Best Seller in the UK and Australia. 1 again in April 2021 after it became a fixture under the TikTok hashtag #BookTok, propelling it to spend 15 consecutive months at #1 YA on the NY Times Best Seller list and become the #1 best-selling YA book of 2021. The novel then experienced a resurgence during the pandemic and hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestsellers list, was a breakout when it was first published in 2017. They Both Die at the End, which made history as the first YA novel with queer Latinx characters to hit No. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-to live a lifetime in a single day. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day.

The book synopsis reads: On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. The novel is a devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. Abrams’ Bad Robot and The Other Two co-creator Chris Kelly. They Both Die at the End had been previously in development as a series at HBO with J.J.

Van Dusen came on board a year later when he was wrapping his two-season run on Bridgerton and had identified the They Both Die at the End novel as the kind of project he would like to tackle next.Īt eOne, the project is overseen by Jacqueline Sacerio. rights to Silvera’s novel in the spring of 2021 for Comins, a growing force in the YA premium space on the heels of the success of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. Emmy and PGA Award-nominated Van Dusen is writing the pilot script and is executive producing through his CVD Productions alongside Silvera, Ocasio, and Comins via his eOne-based Creative Engine.Įntertainment One, which is the studio on the project, acquired U.S.

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