Greg Berlanti to adapt The Forbidden Game trilogy from The Vampire Diaries author L.J. Smith

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Berlanti and Warner Bros. TV have landed the rights to Smith's teen horror trilogy, "in which a girl named Jenny and six friends enter a Jumanji-like game that drops them into different shadow worlds to fight off their worst nightmares, or die and have their souls forever imprisoned," per Deadline. "The stakes are set by Julian, an enigmatic blue-eyed boy who moves freely between worlds. Jenny is determined to save herself and her friends, but when she starts to fall in love with Julian her loyalties are tested beyond anything she has ever experienced."