News Summary

• Hollywood vet and Italian native Gianni Nunnari is bringing Brian Selznick ’s young adult novel Run Away With Me to the screen.
• The queer coming-of-age romance follows Danny, a 16-year-old American spending the summer in Italy, whose life is transformed when he meets Angelo, a mysterious Italian boy.
• The novel blends more than 100 pages of SelzNick’s signature illustrations with prose.
• Selz Nick is the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was adapted by Martin Scorsese into the five-time Academy Award-winning film Hugo.
• His novel Wonderstruck was adapted into the Todd Haynes-directed feature starring Julianne Moore.