Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is negotiating with Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct an adaptation of another young-adult fantasy series called Maximum Ride.

The five-volume series by James Patterson follows six teens, recognized as the Flock, genetically altered as part human and part bird. They learn to fly and escape the laboratory where they were housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf.

Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) is writing a screenplay.