Alex Tse (who is currently working on a live-action adaptation of the awesome Manga Ninja Scroll and co-wrote Watchmen) has been hired to tackle the adaptation of Battling Boy for Plan B and Paramount Pictures. Brad Pitt’s production company picked up rights to the forthcoming graphic novel written and illustrated by Paul Pope in November. The story line follows the son of a god who comes down from the top of a mountain at his father’s urging to rid the giant, continent-sized city of Monstropolis of a plague of beasts. First Second Books will publish the comic in the spring.
