Universal has hired Robert Nelson Jacobs (THE WATER HORSE) to transform Cate Tiernan's YA book series SWEEP into a feature film, reports Variety. The story follows a 16-year-old blood witch, who struggles with using her powers for good or evil.

Alloy Entertainment and Vince Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show Prods. are the studios behind the project. Vaughn will produce alongside Wild West's Sandra J. Smith and Alloy's Leslie Morgenstein. Alloy's Bob Levy is exec producing with Victoria Vaughn shepherding.