Wattpad is partnering with Code 8 producer Collective Pictures (formerly known as Colony Pictures) to adapt the hit teen romance story Float as a feature film.

The new project, based on Kate Marchant’s tale about a girl yanked from her comfortable life in Alaska to spend the summer in her aunt’s sunny beach town, will star Canadian actor Robbie Amell, whose credits include The Flash (The CW), Upload (Amazon) and the Telefilm-backed feature Code 8.

Float will be produced by Collective Pictures’ Jeff Chan, Amell and Chris Paré, alongside Wattpad’s Aron Levitz and Jamie D. Greenberg. Wattpad’s Allen Lau and Sarah Timmins of Black Birds Entertainment will also executive produce.

Float has racked up more than 25 million reads across the world and is one of the most-read teen fiction stories on the story-sharing platform, according to Wattpad.

Chan, Amell and Levitz told Playback Daily the hope is to put the project into production in the first half of 2021. Writing talent and other members of the creative team are set to be announced in the coming months.

The announcement comes six months after Code 8 made waves when it debuted internationally on Netflix, hitting the number two spot on the streamer’s daily Top 10 chart in the U.S., behind only Tiger King, and climbing to the top spot in the U.K. and France. It also made the top five in Finland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Netherlands, South Africa and others.

The significant streaming traction came three months after Code 8 posted impressive North American VOD revenues of around $5 million through Apple, Amazon and Vudu. A spin-off series was also put into development earlier this year with short-form streaming service Quibi.

Wattpad says it has more than 50 projects in development around the world, Deanna Cameron’s What Happened That Night, which is being adapted by Children of Men screenwriter David Arata, and T.L. Bodine’s The Hound. As well, the After franchise has performed well internationally. The second instalment of the film (After We Collided) opened as the top film in a number of European markets in September, according to Wattpad, and a third and fourth instalment have already been greenlit.