My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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EXCLUSIVE: Sony won an auction for screen rights to My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a graphic novel by Emil Ferris that scared up a four studio bidding battle today. Amasia Entertainment’s Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant will produce. Palak Patel is overseeing for Columbia Pictures. The graphic novel is already getting critical raves for its originality and artistic flourishes.Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes. It is infused with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazine iconography. Karen tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, where the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Present throughout are monsters, real and imagined. It is the latest buy for Sony, which under president Sanford Panitch has been very aggressive in the material marketplace.

http://deadline.com/2017/03/graphic-novel-my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-sony-1202056456/

 

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I heard an I tercire with the author in rsdi the other day. The book sounds D's incredible but the authors own back story is nuts. At the grocery of 40 she was bitten by a mosquito and contacted the West Nile virus. The virus cause encephalitis and meningitis. She was paralyzed and suffered from extreme haljcinatiins. She was told she would never walk again but she worked her way back to mobility and relearned how to draw.

 

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Sam Mendes In Early Talks For ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes is in early talks to develop through his Neal Street banner and potentially to direct My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, the critically lauded graphic novel by Emil Ferris that Sony Pictures won in a bidding battle last week. Pending the close of a deal, he will produce with Amasia Entertainment’s Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant. Palak Patel is overseeing for Columbia Pictures. The graphic novel already is getting critical raves for its originality and artistic flourishes.

the graphic novel is set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, and this is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes. It is infused with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazine iconography. Karen tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, where the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Present throughout are monsters, real and imagined

It is the latest buy for Sony, which under president Sanford Panitch has been very aggressive in the material marketplace. The author, who grew up in the turbulence of ’60s Chicago, has been an illustrator and toy sculptor, with an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. This is her first graphic novel.