David Slade to Direct MATCHED for Disney

30 Days of Night and Hard Candy director David Slade has been hired by Disney to direct a feature film adaptation of Matched. The young-adult novel was written by Ally Condie, and the story revolves around a girl in a dystopian future where choice is taken away, and a young woman falls in love with a guy she has not been matched with.

Slade's last feature film project was The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and I imagine he did the best job he could with the material he had to work with. For the most part I like Slade's work, and since Twilight he's been attached to several other film project such as Daredevil, Coward, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. For one reason or another these projects have fallen through. He went on to direct the TV pilot for Hannibal. I've always thought of the director as more of a hardcore kind of guy, so it's interesting to see him attached to these other softer kind of love story movies. I'm sure he'll do a solid job with this latest project he's taken on.

Do you like Slade's work, and do you think he'll do a good job bringing this story to life?

Here's the description of the novel:

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.