Sony Outbids Competitors to Adapt Graphic Novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Jonathan Barkan
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Sony has apparently won the screen rights for Emil Ferris’ graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, which they will be producing with Amasia Entertainment and Columbia Pictures, per Deadline. The graphic novel has drawn stellar reviews for its originality and visual aesthetic. It is presented as a sketchbook of Karen, a 10-year-old girl who envisions herself as a werewolf.
A synopsis from the site 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. It is infused with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines 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, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Present throughout are monsters, real and imagined.
In an interview with NPR, Ferris reveals that this graphic novel may never have happened had she not contracted the West Nile Virus. Her encounter with the disease left her paralyzed at one point, but she regained use of her right hand and relearned how to draw by apparently duct-taping a pen to her hand. I recommend reading that interview because it’s rather fascinating.
There is no word on when My Favorite Thing Is Monsters will enter production, but considering the fact that Sony outbid three other competitors for it, I’m guessing it’ll be something they invest into rather soon.
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