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Every time I pay a visit to Barnes and Noble, the place is packed. Last time I was there, I actually asked the woman behind the counter what B&N was giving away for free and if I could have one, seeing as finding a book on the fourth floor was like locating a bathroom at a packed rock concert. Well folks, I may have finally figured out what's going on here: B&N isn't occupied by regular readers like me -- in reality, it's filled with people who work for Warner Bros.! Conspiracy I say!

That's right, the damn studio is snatching up every young-adult title it can find, most recently acquiring screen rights to Tom Sniegoski's young-adult novel, Sleeper Code. In an interesting move, the studio will not be targeting the Harry Potter crowd but, instead, hired Jason Keller to adapt Code into an adult thriller a la The Bourne Identity.

The novel revolves around a young teen who suffers from an extreme case of narcolepsy, thus forcing him to be home-schooled. When his files go missing and his darn psychologist turns up dead, the boy discovers he hasn't been sleeping at all. Yikes. No director or talent is currently attached.

In one of them classic Hollywood bidding wars, Universal Pictures beat out the likes of Dreamworks and Warner Brothers and bought the rights to turn the comic book Talent into a feature film. Man, I remember back in the day when a good old fashioned bidding war would feature a bunch of studio execs in a pit (along with a few lions to make things interesting), fighting to the death over a story and a dream. Alas, nowadays it's all done over speaker phone. Stupid present day technology always ruining the fun things.

Written by Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski, the four-issue miniseries tells of a college professor who is the lone survivor of a plane crash. After the accident, he mysteriously begins to take on the "talents" of those who perished in the crash. Now, I've never read the comic, but it sounds pretty awesome. In fact, sometimes I feel that a similar situation could be the reason why Britney Spears has any talent whatsoever. But then I remember that people are stupid.