Screenwriter Melisa Wallack has been tapped by Universal to adapt Emily the Strange for the silver screen.
Chloe Moretz is attached to star as the punky goth cult figure created by skateboarder Rob Reger. Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson is producing.
Dark Horse Entertainment has been developing the character as a movie project since 2008, setting it up at Universal in 2010.
The story line is being kept under wraps, although the aim is to tell the origin of the punk and gothic figure and how she comes to gain her abilities that fuse technology and imagination. The story will also focus on her relationship with four cats: troublemaker Sabbath, schemer Nee-Chee, imaginative Miles and leader Mystery.
Wallack penned the script for Relativity’s upcoming Snow White movie.
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