Columbia Pictures and Red Wagon have hired Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien to adapt the upcoming book “The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story” by Will Clarke according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The synopsis’ I’ve found so far on this one don’t seem to do the project justice, so here’s a mini review from Publishers Weekly instead:
The narrator tells us right off that he’s dead, murdered by fellow Gamma Chi Ryan Hutchins, a psychotic hiding behind a charming Big-Man-on-Campus veneer. Conrad makes it his afterlife’s work to bring cocky Ryan down, with the help of the frat house’s salty cook, “crazy” Miss Etta…[Author] Clarke fashions a hilariously addictive yarn, with crackling prose and sharp observations that consistently entertain and surprise. He drives the plot over the top with portraits of hypocritical religious fanatics and unrestrained party animals, and into baby Grand Guignol territory with a swath of outlandish killings-but it all works as black farce of a high degree.
Oh yeah, and it’s set at LSU (Geaux Tigers!!) too. Give me a second to pray for a set visit…OK, all done.
Gotta say that this one sounds downright entertaining. We’ll have to see how much genre they keep in it as it enters production, but I am definitely keeping an eye on it.