A Hollywood Reporter article says that MTV Films has picked up the
movie rights to Valiant, Holly Black's latest urban fantasy novel featuring trolls, teenagers and a Faerie realm beneath New York City. The movie will produced by MTV Films and Chuck Roven and Alex Gartner at the Mosaic Media Group. Paramount Pictures will distribute the film.
Black is well known in children's and young adult lit circles for her love of the fairie segment of the fantasy genre. Her debut novel, Tithe, dealt with fairies and trolls from a teen perspective, and The Spiderwick Chronicles, a New York Times bestseller on which she
collaborated with artist Tony DiTerlizzi, saw the genre tackled from a kids angle.
