FEAST Director Tackling BATTLING BOY Adaptation

Patrick Osborne, the director behind Disney’s Oscar-winning animated short ‘Feast,’ is to take the helm for a movie adaptation of Paul Pope’s graphic novel ‘Battling Boy,’ reports Variety.

‘Battling Boy’ centres on a 12-year-old demigod who must rid the dystopian sprawl of Acropolis of monsters and demons following the death of its protector.

The adaptation is set up over at Paramount Pictures with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment shingle producing.