Comicbook.com has announced that the incredible Joe Kelly comic, I Kill Giants will be adapted into a movie.
From Comicbook.com:
I Kill Giants
, Joe Kelly’s critically acclaimed graphic novel about a young misfit girl battling both real and imagined monsters in her life, is headed to the big screen, he announced tonight.
Treehouse Pictures has come on to fully finance the film, which is set to be Anders Walter’s feature length directorial debut. Walter is best known for writing and directing the 2014 Academy Award-winning live action short Helium.
Chris Columbus is producing through his 1492 Pictures/Ocean Blue Entertainment, along withTreehouse, Man of Action Entertainment andXYZ Films. Kelly wrote the screenplay adaptation based on his own graphic novel. The producers are currently casting, with production targeted for later this year. XYZ is handling world sales on the project.
“Joe Kelly has written a deeply insightful story about a child using fantasy to navigate through a harsh reality, and I am excited and proud to finally be able to bring this wonderful material to the screen,” Columbus said in a statement.
There is only a few copies of the floppy copies of I Kill Giants on eBay and a select few issues at mycomicshop.com. This would be a prime time to list them if you can find them.