Having passed on the opportunity to direct Bond 25, it looks like Sam Mendes may have lined up his next project, with Deadline reporting that the filmmaker is in talks with Sony to develop and potentially direct an adaptation of Emil Ferris’ graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters, which the studio acquired last week after a competitive bidding war.
According to the site, Mendes will develop the project through his Neal Street production company, working alongside Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant of Amasia Entertainment and Palak Patel of Columbia Pictures.
The official description for the acclaimed graphic novel, published earlier this year by Fantagraphics Press, reads: “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, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes 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, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.”
Originally published April 5, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
