Cryptozoo Crew from Jerry Carr and Allan Gross is the latest graphic novel series to get a big-screen deal. Daily Variety reports that Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson have acquired movie rights to the NBM comic and will produce the pic through their Warner Bros.-based Alcon Ent. They have also picked up a Cryptozoo screenplay drafted by Joe Gazzam, whose Scared Straight is being adapted by director John Carpenter and star Nicolas Cage for Nu Image/Millennium.
The Cryptozoo Crew comic revolves around Tork and Tara Darwyn, world-renowned cryptozoologists who travel the globe hunting for strange, exotic creatures yet unknown to science. Throughout their journeys’ they encounter yetis, mothmen, water monsters and various other bizarre beings.
Lloyd Phillips and Circle of Confusion are also producing the film, which is sure to feature a generous amount of digital creature animation and other visual effects. Learn more about the Cryptozoo Crew graphic novels at www.cryptozoocrewonline.com.
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