Focus Features has announced they’ve acquired the film rights to Academy Award nominee Daniel Clowes’ latest graphic novel, Patience, and have enlisted Clowes to write the script for the adaptation.
Published by Fantagraphics in March 2016, Patience spent 19 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.
Some of his other works include the comics series Eightball; the graphic novel David Boring; and the short story collection Caricature.
Focus will hold worldwide rights to Patience as part of the company’s renewed global initiative.