Just as Lauren Conrad left her buddies on the screen of one pop culture sensation, she joined up with key players on another. On Tuesday, as “The Hills” started up again without its original star, Variety announced that “Twilight” executive producers had acquired the rights to Conrad’s debut novel, “L.A. Candy.”

Published in June, “L.A. Candy” follows 19-year-old Jane Roberts as she moves to Hollywood and becomes famous after landing on a reality TV show. The movie deal came together after Conrad approached the producers, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, with an idea for how to adapt the book.

“Lauren, who became an icon in that reality show world, came to us with a structure of how to tell the story in an interesting fashion, that was separate and apart from the book,” Bowen told Variety. “We loved her take. Her book is an honest portrayal of what it must be like to set out to be normal, then sign on to become famous and eventually realize, wow, this isn’t at all what I’d planned for myself.”

Lauren Conrad will take on an exec producer credit for the adaptation. “L.A. Candy” spent 14 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Conrad signed a three-book deal with Harper Collins and plans to write two more Jane Roberts-focused novels. Bowen and Godfrey will first settle on a screenwriter to adapt the book before starting to seek a studio for the project.

In addition to producing “Twilight,” “New Moon” and “Eclipse,” Bowen and Godfrey are producing “Dear John,” starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum.

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