Last calendar month , author Geoff Manaugh put out Ernest , a short story about a ghost , for Vice . Today , that story has been optioned by Hollywood and is being turn into a movie .
Deadline reports that Legendary Pictures has batten down the right to Ernest , and set Christopher Landon ( Happy Death Day , the Paranormal Activity serial publication ) to adapt the story and direct the film .
Ernest is the fictional story of adult male who finds a spook in his house that he thinks looks like Ernest Borgnine . He takes videos of the ghost , puts them online , and it becomes a viral sensation , even get its way onto Jimmy Kimmel Live . However , when a student hired to help spread the word about Ernest vanish , thing take an odd turn .
Thefull light story is hereon the Vice own - site Motherboard if you ’d like to take it . It ’s a fun idea that mixes a few genres , and Landon has done lot of that in his career . In addition to Happy Death Day , which is certainly a portmanteau of genre , he did Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse , which is n’t great , but is a majuscule intermixture of ideas . Ernest sounds like it could be that and more .
[ Deadline ]
- Correction : The story is on Motherboard , which is have by Vice but range severally . We ’ve added that to the piece .
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