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Kissing Booth star Joey King will star in McG’s adaptation of Scott Westerfield’s 2005 novel Uglies for Neflix.

According to Deadline, King has been the driving force behind Netflix acquiring the rights to the series, set in a world three centuries from now where everyone is operated on at age 16 to conform to a set standard of beauty – but it’s a weapon that can be held over people’s heads.

Three further novels have appeared in the series, with a proposed movie version in 2013 not proceeding.