Ben Affleck will direct an adaptation of Keeper of the Lost Cities for Disney, based on the book series by Shannon Messenger. In addition to directing, Affleck is also reportedly co-writing and producing the film. Keeper of the Lost Cities follows a young girl named Sophie Foster, who is telepathic, and isolated as a result of her extraordinary powers. When she meets a young man named Fitz Vacker, Sophie learns that she has an origin and destiny in an entirely different realm than the “normal” world we know: the realm of the Lost Cities.
Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain.
Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.
Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.“There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.
