Some kid-friendly horror hijinx are on the way (best to start them off early and then go right to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) as Deadline is reporting that Joe Ballarini has made a deal with Walden and Montecito Pictures for A Babysitter’s Guide to Monsters, a children’s book by Ballarini, best known for scripting My Little Pony.
Ballarini will write the script. After closing a six-figure, three-book deal from the HarperCollins imprint Katherine Tegen Books, the film rights had several suitors circling before Walden and Montecito closed in with a mid-six-figure deal.
The book is about an apathetic babysitter who doesn’t like kids very much and is horrified to discover that the child she is sitting for has been stolen by monsters. It’s her responsibility, along with a secret society of babysitters who do battle against the creatures of the night, to save the child and the world from things that go bump in the night.
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