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03-06-2009, 10:02 AM
If you're a fan of werewolves, prisons and comics, you're in for a treat as Chris Columbus' 1492 Entertainment has optioned the motion picture rights to Ben Templesmith's graphic novel Welcome To Hoxford from IDW Publishing.
Fans will no doubt remember Templesmith as the co-creator of 30 Days of Night along with writer Steve Niles. His credits include the serial Wormwood Gentleman Corpse and Singularity 7.
When a deeply disturbed and violent inmate is transferred to a privately run mental prison called Hoxford, his psychiatrist discovers that the worst of the worst inmates are being transferred into the facility but never out. After trying to see her patient, the doctor find herself trapped in the prison, so she and the inmate must fight for survival … together … against the werewolves … that run the facility.
"I actually owe the entire book to an idea I had after receiving a letter about some previous work being banned from a prison," said Templesmith. "It turned into one of the darker things I've ever done, with a few sick twists. It's really been quite fantastic that Chris Columbus has thought Hoxford worthy enough to perhaps burst from the comic pages to the screen."
No word yet on a writer or director for the project.
Fans will no doubt remember Templesmith as the co-creator of 30 Days of Night along with writer Steve Niles. His credits include the serial Wormwood Gentleman Corpse and Singularity 7.
When a deeply disturbed and violent inmate is transferred to a privately run mental prison called Hoxford, his psychiatrist discovers that the worst of the worst inmates are being transferred into the facility but never out. After trying to see her patient, the doctor find herself trapped in the prison, so she and the inmate must fight for survival … together … against the werewolves … that run the facility.
"I actually owe the entire book to an idea I had after receiving a letter about some previous work being banned from a prison," said Templesmith. "It turned into one of the darker things I've ever done, with a few sick twists. It's really been quite fantastic that Chris Columbus has thought Hoxford worthy enough to perhaps burst from the comic pages to the screen."
No word yet on a writer or director for the project.