I didn’t personally think Half Nelson was the great film everyone else made it out to be, but it wasn’t a bad film and it seems Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are teaming to adapt the teen novel “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” for Miramax.
Both Fleck and Boden penned Half Nelson with Fleck directing, which will be the same situation here.
The novel, written by Marisha Pessl and published in August, centers on a teenage girl who, after spending years of high school moving each semester with her eccentric teacher father, settles in a small North Carolina town for her senior year. There she becomes part of an upper-crust social set called the Bluebloods and gets caught up in the mysterious death of their favorite teacher.
