I've never been particularly impressed by Emma Watson's acting, but maybe I'm alone in that: she's apparently starring in two buzzed-about YA movie adaptations: Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Catherine Fisher's Icarceron.

I'm far more interested in the latter, which sounds like it should feature lots of special effects and sci-fi-y twists. The former sounds weepy (one strike!), melodramatic (two strikes!), and will co-star the dread Logan Lerman (twenty-seven strikes!), who played the title character in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. (Admittedly, I don't remember his acting in that atrocity being that bad, but I hated the movie so much I don't think I'd be able to stomach watching him in something else.)

Labels: Movie Adaptations, teen literature