‘The Ghouly Boys’ gets a Writer

Writer Sam Esmail has been selected to write the screenplay for Mandate Pictures’ feature film adaptation of the comic book ‘The Ghouly Boys’. The project is being produced by Lindsay Doran (Nanny McPhee) and Benderspink, in partnership with Mandate.

In 2006, Mandate picked up film rights to the spooky and comical graphic-novel series about a quartet of young monster outcasts and their efforts to fit in. Written and drawn by the single-named artist Christopher (Higginson), “Ghouly” was published in 2004 by Slave Labor Graphics.

Esmail’s script will follow two friends — a young boy looking to contact his dead father and a young zombie seeking a way to come back to life — who set off on an adventure. — HR

[source: Hollywood Reporter]