After the drama of Little Children, Bona Fide Picture producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are looking for more, and they've found it. Variety reports that the duo will produce another youth-titled project with very adult themes -- an adaptation of Charles Bock's Beautiful Children, which will be made with Warner Independent Pictures.

Eric Roth, the pen behind Forrest Gump, The Insider, and Munich, is in talks to adapt the novel, which follows the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy in Las Vegas. Think Lovely Bones, but instead of an eerie account of a girl's death and its aftermath, this is a seedy story set in Sin City. According to the Washington Post review up on Amazon, the kid is a spoiled brat who runs away into a raunchy environment where one girl even cuts her nipples open for a floor show. However, while it just sounds raunchy, the review also says that even though it's not polished, the novel "deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter and the sensitivity with which he treats it." Whether that sensitivity makes its way to the big screen -- we'll have to wait and see.

But this isn't the only project in the works for Yerxa and Berger. They're finalizing the money for The Undeniable Charm of Sloppy Unruh, a comic fable starring Patrick Wilson, Zooey Deschanel, Amy Ryan, Seann William Scott, and John Doe, and they are also reteaming with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris for the Tom Perrotta adaptation The Abstinence Teacher.

There once was an insidiously determined girl named Tracey Flick, who wanted nothing more than to be President, with her tireless energy, campaign buttons, and tasty cupcakes. Not even Matthew Broderick, with or without a painfully swollen eye, could control her determination. They lived in the confines of Tom Perotta's book, Election, and the great film, directed by Alexander Payne, of the same name. These days, Perotta's name has been buzzing around for writing Little Children, a film about intersecting suburban families, but he's ready to head back to high school.

In September, Erik Davis shared the first bits of information to come out about his upcoming novel and screenplay -- The Abstinence Teacher. Now there is a little more plot to share, and two people who might make it come to life. Abstinence focuses on, no surprise, a small town in middle-America. A divorced sex-ed teacher and mother of two finds herself fighting conservative groups and trying to teach sex education while becoming interested in her daughter's soccer coach, who is born-again. The duo who wants to bring it to the big screen -- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the husband and wife team who brought us Little Miss Sunshine. They sound like a perfect fit for Perotta's darkly comedic social commentary. If they land the gig, who would be cast? I can't help but think that Mary-Louise Parker and Martin Donovan should continue their on-screen flings, since the scenario treads on familiar territory.