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Rights to Divergent series author Veronica Roth’s new story Inertia has been bought by Fox 2000, according to a report at Deadline.

The story appeared in the anthology Summer Days & Summer Nights, and is described as a love story set “in the near future where technology allows for “last visitations.” That is a process in which a person can be connected to the consciousness of another nearing death. When Claire’s estranged best friend Matt is left in critical condition after a terrible car accident, she unexpectedly learns he’s requested their two minds be connected before he passes. Together they revisit their shared past, reliving the highs and lows of their relationship, and make new discoveries about the future they might have shared.”

The film will be produced by Temple Hill and Fox 2000; no scriptwriter or director have been assigned as yet.