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Diablo Cody‘s is soon set out tackle “Sweet Valley High” as she has signed on to write and produce an adaptation of the book series for Universal.

The series, created by Francine Pascal, made its debut in 1983, publishing 150-plus books with more than 60 million copies in print. The last one came out January 2003.

The “Sweet Valley High” follows the lives of identical twins with dissimilar personalities in the fictional town of Sweet Valley. There were more than 150 books in the series between 1983 and 2003 and a TV series with 88 episodes between 1994 and 1997.

Cody’s also attached to produce “Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament” for Fox Searchlight.

20th Century Fox has been busy this week pumping up promotion for Jennifer’s Body which stars Megan Fox and was written by Diablo Cody (Juno). The company has released both the Red Band trailer for the film (which you can check out at STYD) and a brand new one sheet for the film which features the leggy Megan Fox in a school girl outfit. What’s not to like? Swing by the mighty Bloody-Disgusting to soak in the goodness >

The story centers on an impish high-school student (Amanda Seyfried) who has to protect her town against her best friend, Jennifer (Megan Fox), who after being bedeviled by an evil rock band, develops a taste for human flesh.

Jennifer’s Body is set to open on September 18, 2009.

According to Production Weekly, Diablo Cody‘s next project will be an adaptation of the book ‘Breathers’ by S.G. Brown.

Both Diablo Cody and Mason Novick will produce, while the script is being adapted by Geoff LaTulippe.

The description on Browne’s site describes the novel like this:

Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket, to the SPCA, to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.