Geez, all of these comic and comic creator based Hollywood deals, you’d think some giant comic based event were going on right now!

The latest of many deals to be announced is the adaptation of the latest novel (with spot images) by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola.  Mignola, of course, is best known for his work on Hellboy, but over the years, he’s worked on a series of novels with Golden, including the Baltimore series, and the newest, Joe Golem and the Drowning City.

Despite having just been published in March of this year, Constantin Film has acquired the novel to be adapted and directed by Alex Proyas. Proyas is best known for directing films such as Dark City, The Crow and I, Robot, so the novel, a dark steampunk tale set in the 1920’s is definitely his type of film to do.

Here’s the synopsis of the novel:

In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it the Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance.

Among them are fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run.

Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches.

Definitely sounds like it could be a great movie. If you now want to check out the novel (like I do!), you can nab it on the cheap at Amazon.com.

Source: Deadline.com.