Director P.J. Hogan Got A BONE To Pick With Scribe Patrick Jean Smith

Hollywood Reporter said scribe Patrick Sean Smith will write the screenplay for the movie version of BONE, to be directed by P.J. Hogan.
Based on the comic book series by Jeff Smith, this project is produced by Dan Lin of Lin Pictures and Animal Logic. WB bought the rights in 2008

The comic follows three cousins from the Bone family, small, bald and humanlike creatures with big noses. The trio are run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and they find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.