Mandate PIctures (Juno, Drag Me To Hell, 30 Days of Night) has picked up the rights to the 2008 novel You Are a Miserable Excuse For a Hero by Onion scribe Bob Powers.Powers' "Just Make a Choice" system is a riff on the Choose Your Own Adventure model (cool British kids preferred Fighting Fantasy, which worked on the same principle). The book's protagonist - ie you - enjoys a successful blind date, following which his potential new squeeze is kidnapped. The book then presents him/you with ongoing opportunities to either attempt to save the day, or to run and hide, fearing that a daring rescue looks like a bit too much of a commitment this early in the relationship.The project was shopped to Mandate by screenwriter Dv DeVincentis, whose credits include High Fidelity and the awesome Grosse Point Blank. He was attracted to the project because ""I wanted to

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