'The Monstrous Memoirs' Gets Adapted

[Wednesday, October 19th, 2005]
Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have won a bidding war to buy the rights to the upcoming children's book by Ahmet Zappa, The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The book follows a brother and sister who discover they belong to a family of legendary monster hunters and must journey to a far-off castle to rescue their father from the most fearsome monster of all. Zappa, a sometime actor and son of rocker Frank Zappa, illustrated the more than 300 monsters in the book.

The book originally began in 2003 as a recipe book for kids -- the recipes were to create "antidotes" to ward off the monsters -- but Random House liked what it saw and asked for a chapter book. Random House will publish it in August.

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