UPDATE: Following her coyness with MTV, Diablo Cody has now revealed the unbridled truth about Sweet Valley High to The Guardian. "I've not told anyone else this yet," she beamed, "but it's going to be a musical! It's pretty awesome. I'm so happy!"
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When Diablo Cody promised back in November that her in-the-works new Sweet Valley High movie would be "a feast for the senses", we didn't quite expect this. Speaking to MTV, Cody has teased that we might possibly expect her Francine Pascal-inspired opus to arrive as a musical.
"There’s original songs being written for it right now," she revealed, "which is the most exciting development. They’re amazing. They’re being written by these Tony and Pulitzer winning songwriters from Broadway who are the best!"
Asked if that actually meant SVH is going to be a musical, she grinned "Perhaps it is..."
Cody previously talked about her film being "to the '80s what American Graffiti was to the early '60s", which might in itself indicate the need for an extensive soundtrack. But George Lucas' nostalgia trip used wall-to-wall classic choons, whereas Cody's hints at all-new Broadway showstoppers now suggests something slightly different...
Whatever, we can certainly expect "glamorous and bubblegum". And perky twins, since the books were about Elizabeth (the goody two-shoes one) and Jessica (the reckless one) Wakefield, blonde twins with blue-green eyes and perfect size 6 figures (as we were reminded in every single book) and their trials and tribulations at high school.
Sweet Valley High is still officially "in development", so it's a while away yet. In the meantime, Cody's death metal crisis-of-faith drama Lamb Of God is in pre-production, and Young Adult, which she wrote for Jason Reitman, is out on February 10.