Alex Proyas To Direct 'JOE GOLEM AND THE DROWNING CITY'

Deadline reports that Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) will write and direct a feature adaptation of Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Joe Golem And The Drowning City. Mike is best known for creating the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comic franchises. Proyas had been tapped to direct an epic feature based on Paradise Lost until Warner Bros. and Legendary axed the project over the budgetary issues.

"a supernatural-steampunk illustrated novel that follows an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan. In this vision, lower Manhattan sank into the water during a catastrophic earthquake in 1925, leaving those unwilling or unable to abandon it to make a new life in streets turned to canals."