The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne has been tapped to direct the feature adaptation of Jeff Smith’s Bone comic for Warner Bros. He will co-write the script with Adam Kline.
The feature film adaptation of Bone has been in development for a few years with P.J. Hogan (Confessions of a Shopaholic) previously attached to direct.
The fantasy series, which ran irregularly from 1991 to 2004, followed three cousins from the Bone family, who are small, white and bald 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.