Hatchery, Jane Startz option 'Angel' book series

La-based production company the Hatchery and Gotham-based Jane Startz Prods. have teamed to option scribe L.A. Weatherly's book trilogy, "Angel." The series follows the complicated romance of Willow, half-angel and half-human character, and Alex, a CIA assassin designated to look her lower. "Angel Burn," the initial book inside the "Angel" series, was released in your area by Candlewick Press in May and showed up a higher ten perfect the American Assn. of Booksellers' Indie Next List. "Angel Fire," the second book inside the series, will released inside the U.K. this month, which is slated for just about any U.S. release within the month of the month of january 2012. The best book inside the "Angel" trilogy is predicted being launched in fall 2012. Startz, recognized for creating book-to-film adaptations for instance "Ella Enchanted" and "The Newborn-Sitters' Club," known to "Angel" as "most likely probably the most thrilling, romantic and imaginative books I have read in a really, super very long time," while Hatchery partner Serta Angel named the trilogy a "rare property which hits on all cylinders." Candlewick Press topper Karen Lotz added, "We simply cannot wait to find out how (it) translate for audiences using what promises to become thrill ride feature film." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com