Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass, Hugo, Carrie) will star in Sony Pictures’ adaptation of the bestselling young adult novel The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. The film will be directed by J Blakeson, with a screenplay by Susannah Grant, based on the novel by Rick Yancey. The producers are Tobey Maguire, Graham King, Lynn Harris, and Matthew Plouffe. Denis O’Sullivan and Richard Middleton are the executive producers. In this tense thriller, four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, 16-year-old Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal 5th wave, Cassie meets a young man who may become her final hope.