Hatchery Grabs V.C. Andrews

I feel like I’m a little stuck in childhood memories today, but sometimes names just jump off the page at you and you have no choice but to stare at them in utter amazement. Apparently a marketing and production company called Hatchery have picked up the entertainment rights for V.C. Andrews’ novels.

I remember everyone feeling the rebellious urge to read them because of their perceived taboo status and myself being a little disturbed when reading them. Andrews’ 57 books have broken the magical 100 million in print milestone by dealing with topics such as incest, child abuse, mental illness, underage sex, pregnancy, and pretty much anything else that comes to mind as something that could be a source of morbid curiousity. The writing wasn’t great, but like fans of Danielle Steele, there was just something about them that made you read on. Of the books I only read the Dollanganger Series (Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday and Garden of Shadows), and I read them when I was quite young.

Somehow I doubt that Hatchery, with its plans for both TV and film projects, will be able to titillate quite like the books. No fault of theirs really, but the subject matter is likely not as shocking and deliciously appalling to me now as it was when I was ‘innocent’ and not supposed to know of such things. I’ll probably just shrug and say ‘seen it’, as Hollywood has excelled at throwing everything but the kitchen sink at movie goers in the past decade or so. But there’s a part of me that hopes that whatever films may come of this are just as grimace-worthy as their written predecessors.