‘Feast’ Director Will Make Paul Pope Adaptation ‘Battling Boy’
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2015 by Russ Fischer
It makes sense that the first movie based on a comic by Paul Pope would be his entertaining and relatively accessible Battling Boy, rather than something more strange and complex like his Mars epic THB or the set of future-Manhattan stories from 100%. A boy hero, even a boy hero who is a demigod who fights with magic t-shirts, is the sort of character who makes for a slightly easier movie marketing pitch.
Still, Plan B and Paramount have been working on a Battling Boy movie for years, since long before the book was even published. But now a director has been hired, and it’s a choice that will probably generate some great interest for the Battling Boy movie: the person in question is Patrick Osborne, who directed the short Feast for Disney. Read More »
