Are You Ready For the Next Nicholas Sparks Adaptation?

Ready or not, Warner Bros. is planning to adapt another Nicholas Sparks novel for the screen. According to Deadline, the studio has just acquired The Best of Me which follows "former small-town high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks" and is due to hit bookshelves this fall. But didn't movie audiences decide that they were over Sparks adaptations back when Nights in Rodanthe bombed at the box office?

Apparently not. If you look at the domestic grosses for each Nicholas Sparks film -- all courtesy of Box Office Mojo, you'll notice that the last Sparks film to score big, Dear John, also featured a war-torn love story about two kids from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

· Message in a Bottle (1999): $52.9 million

· A Walk to Remember (2002): $41.3 million

· The Notebook (2004): $81 million

· Nights in Rodanthe (2008): $41.9 million

· Dear John (2010): $80 million

· The Last Song (2010): $63 million

If that isn't enough Nicholas Sparks development knowledge for you, please note that Warner Bros. is also adapting another one of his novels, The Lucky One -- about "a US Marine who finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the sands of Iraq and tries to track her down after the photo becomes a lucky charm for him" -- for the screen. Scott Hicks (No Reservations) will direct while Zac Efron is attached to star.

· Warner Bros Buys Nicholas Sparks' Upcoming Romance Novel 'The Best Of Me' [Deadline]