FEAST Director To Helm Adaptation of Paul Pope's Graphic Novel BATTLING BOY

If you've seen Big Hero 6, you undoubtedly remember the animated short that played before it called Feast, which focused on a food-loving dog who observed his master's love life. It won Best Animated Short at the Oscars, and now the film's director, Patrick Osborne, has graduated to the big leagues. Variety reports he's been hired to direct a film adaptation of Paul Pope's graphic novel Battling Boy.

Here's the synopsis of the comic:

Monsters roam through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one man is a match for them - the genius vigilante Haggard West.
Unfortunately, Haggard West is dead.
Arcopolis is desperate, but when its salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-old demigod, nobody is more surprised than Battling Boy himself.
IT'S TIME TO MEET AN ELECTRIFYING NEW HERO.

Paramount has been working on this project since 2008, when it was attached to Brad Pitt's Plan B production company. We assume this project will be live action and not an animated adaptation (the Variety report doesn't say), and if so, it'll be cool to see if Osborne can handle the jump from animation to live action. At the very least, it sounds like he'll be working with some interesting source material.

Has anyone out there read the graphic novel? Let us know what you think below.

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