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Kyle Patrick Alvarez to helm YA thriller Acceleration

Kyle Patrick Alvarez has been set to direct “Acceleration”, an adaptation of Graham McNamee’s 2003 YA thriller.

The book centres on a 17-year-old who is spending the summer working in the bowels of the Transit Authority’s Lost and Found department, cataloging misplaced belongings. When he stumbles on a lost diary filled with the twisted secrets of a serial killer, he realizes the killer is stalking his prey in the subway and that his next victim has already been chosen.

Alvarez is co-writing the script with Adam Shazar.

Variety first reported the news.

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