Patrick Osborne, director of Disney's short film Feast, is officially set to direct Paramount Pictures' Battling Boy.
Having made his directorial debut in Feast, which won the 2015 Oscar for best animated short film, Osborne has also worked as an animator for a handful of bigger titles, including Wreck-It Ralph, Bolt, Tangled and The Polar Express.
Battling Boy, which was picked up by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment back in 2008 and brought to Paramount, will be the big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel by Paul Pope.
The action adventure story follows a 12-year-old demigod who is on a mission to get rid of the monsters in his dystopian society. The official description of the graphic novel, named one of NPR's best books of 2013, is as follows:
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.
It's not yet known if the movie adaption will be live-action or an animated feature, but producers Sarah Esberg and Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B Entertainment will be on board, as well as David Gordon Green and Josh Parkinson, who co-wrote the latest draft of the film.
Osborne also signed on last month to make his feature directorial debut for the big-screen animated adaption of the comic Nimona for Fox, which is based on the best-selling graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson.
Battling Boy has has two prequels, The Death of Haggard West and The Rise of Aurora West, which came out in 2013 and 2014.
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