en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uglies_(novel_series)
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a feature film adaptation titled The Uglies was announced to be in development with 20th Century Fox
The September 2020 film announcement was for a Netflix adaptation, not one being developed with 20th Century Fox.
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This sentence mixes up two different stages of the adaptation's history.
Netflix's own announcement from September 29, 2020 says Joey King would star in Netflix's film adaptation of Uglies, with McG directing and Krista Vernoff adapting the screenplay. It does not describe the 2020 project as being in development with 20th Century Fox.
A later ABC News retrospective explains the likely source of the confusion: 20th Century Fox bought the film rights in 2006, and the project later changed hands. So Fox is part of the adaptation's earlier history, but not the studio attached to the September 2020 announcement.
So the article's 2020 claim is inaccurate because it attributes the 2020 development announcement to the wrong studio.
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- JOEY KING TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE AND STAR IN NETFLIX's FILM ADAPTION OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING NOVEL "UGLIES" WITH DIRECTOR MCG - About Netflix
29 September 2020 ... Joey King will executive produce and star in Netflix's film adaptation of Scott Westerfeld's ... novel Uglies.
- After almost 20 years, Scott Westerfeld's Uglies movie starring Joey King and Laverne Cox is finally here - ABC News
By 2006, 20th Century Fox had bought the film rights ... It wasn't until 2020 that it was announced Netflix had acquired the film rights, with King to star.