Disney is reimagining Louis Sachar’s acclaimed YA novel Holes for the small screen, with Kidscreen confirming that streamer Disney+ has put in a pilot order for a series concept brewing at 20th Television.

Sachar’s 1998 kidlit classic has already been turned into a same-name Disney feature film that generated US$71 million in ticket sales against a US$17-million budget in 2003. It starred Shia LaBeouf as a boy who gets sent to a correctional camp after being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers, but 20th’s treatment will revolve around a teen girl instead.

Alina Mankin (Katy Keene) is writing the scripts, and showrunner Liz Phang (Foundation) is also on board. Both will executive produce, along with Drew Goddard, Sarah Esberg and rights holders Shamrock and Walden Media—which produced the 2003 movie. One of the film’s producers, Mike Medavoy, is also returning as an EP.

Holes follows a group of young detention campers who are forced to dig holes everyday by a merciless warden. Sachar’s novel—which explores themes like racism, boyhood and labor, but in an age-appropriate way for young readers—won the 1999 Newbery Medal for making the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, as well as a US National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Disney+ seems to be on something of a known-IP spree, recently ordering a Malcolm in the Middle four-part miniseries and an aged-down reimagining of Victor Hugo’s The Phantom of the Opera.

Featured image (L-R): Shia LaBeouf and Khleo Thomas at the post-premiere event for Holes in 2003 (Lucy Nicholson/Getty)