It’s Possible That Sam Mendes Says My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Jonathan Barkan
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Last week, we posted that Sony had outbid several competitors to land the screen rights to Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a graphic novel about a 10-year-old girl who envisions herself as a monster. Now Deadline is saying that Sam Mendes (Specture, Skyfall) is in early talks to produce the film under his Neal Street banner.
Nothing is confirmed yet, but it sounds like this is basically a shoe-in. Stay tuned for updates!
Synopsis:
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.
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