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Watchmen's Screenwriter Pens 'Battling Boy' for Brad Pitt's Plan B
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Back in November, Brad Pitt and Paramount fell hard for Paul Pope's Battling Boy, which they snapped up before it had even hit store shelves. The book isn't due to be published until 2010, but according to The Hollywood Reporter the film adaptation already has a screenwriter: Alex Tse, who is fresh off Watchmen and busy penning scripts for Ninja Scroll and Zack Snyder's adaptation of The Illustrated Man. Battling Boy centers on the wee offspring of a god, whose dad urges him to leave their immortal mountaintop home and descend to Monstropolis, and rid the city of its plague of monsters. Considering the city is the size of a continent, this might take him awhile. The monsters aren't your cute and cuddly Monsters Vs Aliens type either, but according to Pope are "horrible, Grimm's fairytale, Beowulf-ish monsters, awful things. Child-stealers. Plus some of the vampires and mummies and wolfmen we remember from the old black and white Hollywood horror films." If you'd like another glimpse at the book, Pope did celebrate Battling Boy getting optioned by publishing some additional artwork on his blog.
There's not much more to go on, and no indication as to whether Pitt might take the role of Senior Deity, so we'll have to sit tight and wait for the book. Clearly though, Pitt and Paramount have been studying their comic book movies -- if Tse can adapt Watchmen, he can probably do a fair job at adapting anything graphic novel you throw at him.
Brad Pitt Digs Con Men and Meth Heads
Filed under: Drama », Deals », Paramount », Scripts », Brad Pitt »
So before anyone accuses me of pandering to celebrity by putting a picture of Brad Pitt on this news item, I want you to know that I tried to find a picture that was a little more 'newsworthy', but caved when I came up with nothing. So, it's Pitt you get. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Pitt's production company, Plan B, have purchased the rights to the true life tale of local journalist Linda Trest, and her take-down of a conman posing as a federal agent in Gerald, Missouri.Anthony Walton and Andrew Dresher have already been tapped to write the story of a small town journalist by the name of Linda Trest who had been receiving complaints about drug searches that had been conducted by Bill A. Jakob (a new-to-town federal agent who had supposedly been sent to handle the town's Methamphetamine problem). After conducting her own investigation, Trest uncovered that Jakob was an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding minister and a former small-town cop -- one thing he wasn't was a federal agent. Jakob eventually pleaded guilty to impersonating an officer, and is facing six years in prison.
Plan B has been snatching up new properties left and right lately, including Eat, Pray, Love, with Ryan Murphy directing, The Killer and Black Hole with David Fincher, and the just-announced Battling Boy. Like with most Plan B projects, rumors are already brewing over whether or not Pitt will star (presumably as Jakob). But as we all know, Pitt has the bad habit of dropping out of movies even after signing on the dotted line, so we'll have to wait and see.
Paramount Options a 'Battling Boy'
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One of my tiny, movie-related pet peeves is when literature (be it novel, comic, or graphic novel) gets optioned before any of us get to read it. I long to be part of that secret society that knows (and has already read) everything cool that will be published for the next ten years.The latest to join the club is Paul Pope's Battling Boy, which Variety reports has been picked up by Brad Pitt's Plan B shingle. (Plan B is fond of the geeky properties -- between this, World War Z, and Black Hole, when is Pitt going to break down and play a superhero? Or at least start attending comic book conventions?) The kicker is that we won't get to read Battling until Spring 2010(!), when it will be published by First Second Books.
You can get a glimpse of the book on First Second's official site (which reveals the book was to be published in 2007!), or here on Pope's blog. It's a book geared to the younger set, though it sounds like there's enough mayhem to keep adults interested. It follows a young boy who's the son of a god/superhero at his father's. At his father's request, the boy descends to the city of Monstropolis, where he takes on a plague of monsters. And they're not funny monsters -- in Pope's words, they're "horrible, Grimm's fairytale, Beowulf-ish monsters, awful things. Child-stealers. Plus some of the vampires and mummies and wolfmen we remember from the old black and white Hollywood horror films."
No writer or director has been attached to the movie adaptation yet -- could it be that we'll see the movie before the book? Either way, it sounds like the perfect story for any monster loving kids (big and small) you might know.
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