Warners Commits Skulduggery

[Hunter Rider]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/791/791520p1.html

Studio snaps up fantasy novels.
by IGN Staff


US, May 24, 2007 - The Harry Potter film series only has a few more years left, and Warner Bros. is eager find a new kid-targeted fantasy franchise that they can count on. To that end, the studio has just picked up the movie rights to Irish author Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant, the first in a nine-book series from HarperCollins publishers.


According to industry insider mags Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, the comic-horror tale is set in modern-day Dublin, and centers on a wisecracking skeleton detective named Skulduggery Pleasant and his young accomplice Stephanie. Together the pair must try to stop the return of the evil Faceless One.


Warner Bros. reportedly won a bidding war with several other studios for the film rights to the first book and the series of novels that are expected to follow.


Landy, who wrote horror screenplays before penning the novel, will script the film himself.


Critics have hailed Skulduggery Pleasant as "cinematic" and "irreverent," which make it sounds like a potentially commercially successful film series.

Never read the book but the lead character looks visually coolt:

 

[Apocalypso]

Meh, I was hoping for the "missing link" movie starring Burt Reynolds and Roger C. Carmel...

 

[tzarinna]

He does look pretty bad ass.
Not sure if I'd commit to watching a series of 9 movies,I bailed on Harry Potter after one.