Doug TenNapel — animator, video game designer, graphic novelist, blogger — continues to rack up the movie deals. The Hollywood Reporter says his newest graphic novel, Ghostopolis, has been picked up by Disney — and Wolverine star Hugh Jackman is set to produce and star in the film version:
The story centers on a man who works for the government’s Supernatural Immigration Task Force. His job is to send ghosts who have escaped into our world back to Ghostopolis. When a living boy accidentally is sent to the other side, the agent must team with a female ghost (and former flame) to bring him back.
This would be at least the fourth movie deal that TenNapel has made in the last few years — Paramount has Monster Zoo, New Regency has Creature Tech and Universal has Tommysaurus Rex — but this marks the first time that an actor has been attached to one of them, as far as I can recall.
Whether any of these films will get the green light remains an open question; I gather TenNapel’s stories can be pretty bizarre, which might make them difficult to adapt for the big screen.
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