It's Time to Pay the 'Piper'
Can you hear the music playing? Zenoscope Entertainment has, through titles like Grimm Fairy Tales and Beyond Wonderland, carved out its own little niche in the comics industry, creating a brand that combines dark interpretations of beloved children's stories with nubile and often scantilly-clad young women. And the brand's a hit with fanboys. (Go figure.) Now the publisher's signature style will appear on the big screen, with the just-announced film adaptation of The Piper. Deets after the jump.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Persistent Entertainment, Pantry Films and Zenescope are teaming up to produce a film version of the latter's comic The Piper, which "aims to take a dark look at the Pied Piper of Hamelin fable. The story will center on a much-bullied high school band student who unintentionally channels the spirit of the mysterious Pied Piper and triggers terrifying consequences of his actions beyond his control.
"The project -- brought to Persistent by exec Aaron Cruze, who will shepherd its development -- is out to writers."
Zenoscope has described its titular character as "in the same mold as classic villains such as Candyman, Freddie Kreuger and Pinhead." It'll be interesting to see how that translates on the big screen, which spawned those villains. Here's hoping it's a fun, '80s-style fantasy-horror schlock fest.
