Today, Shull lives in her hometown, Ithaca. Shull's first two books – 'Yours Truly Skye O'Shea' and 'Skye's the Limit!' – were published by American Girl. Shull was given her big break in children's publishing by Pleasant Rowland, founder of American Girl. In 2000, she was a team rider for Girls on the Move, a special project of Outward Bound, USA, bicycling coast-to-coast from Portland, Oregon, to New York City. While in graduate school, Shull founded a mentoring program with the women's hockey team that still thrives today. At Cornell, Shull's doctoral work in educational psychology looked at ways to help young people retain their resilience as they navigate adolescence, and gave her inspiration as a writer.Ī graduate of Ithaca High School, Shull competed in youth ice hockey before going on to play for Cornell University. Some of her best known works are, 'The Swap' (HarperCollins, 2014)-now a Disney Channel Original Movie, 'Bounce' (HarperCollins, 2016) and the award-winning young adult novel 'Amazing Grace.' (Disney Hyperion, 2005).īorn and raised in Ithaca, New York, Shull holds a B.S. She later confirmed on Twitter that the film’s producers were supportive and assured her that she didn’t have to do any scenes she wasn’t comfortable with.Megan Shull is an American author of books for children and young adults. “I’m madly in love and I do not want to kiss another human,” Siwa said, referring to then-girlfriend Kylie Prew. YouTube star Jojo Siwa has landed the starring role in Will Smiths upcoming adaptation of Bounce.Smith and James Lassiter are producing the upcoming movie through their Overbrook Entertainment banner, alongside Caleeb Pinkett. The Dance Moms star, who identifies as pansexual, hit headlines in June last year when she told Entertainment Weekly that she wanted a scene in which her character kisses a man cut from the movie. Siwa, 18, also confirmed that her departure from Bounce had nothing to do with that controversy either. Sources told Variety that the project fell apart months ago and its demise was not related to Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars in late March. His sister Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband Will Smith were attached as producers when Bounce was announced in 2020. The project was brought to the studio by producer Caleeb Pinkett. The story follows a teenager who makes a wish on Christmas Eve that she could trade her family for a new one. It wasn’t the one,” she explained.īounce was due to be directed by Susan Johnson from a script by Josann McGibbon. “That project got put on hold, and then went away. However, she recently told Variety that she’s no longer involved with the film, which has now reportedly been removed from Paramount Pictures’ development slate. The YouTuber and dancer was attached to star in the movie adaptation of Megan Shull’s young adult novel Bounce, which would have been her first film not affiliated with the Nickelodeon TV network. JoJo Siwa has dropped out of the lead role in Bounce.
JoJo Siwa insisted her departure wasn’t due to Will Smith’s recent Oscars controversy.
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