Nanny McPhee

Sally Hawkins will star in "We Want Sex," produced by Stephen Woolley and Liz Karlsen from Number 9 Films.   Film follows the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers left their jobs in protest after sexual descrimination in their job performance evaluations. This contributed to women receiving equal pay in the work place.   During the strike, the committee was invited to tea by the employment secretary Barbara Castle and it was during that meeting where the issue was raised for equal pay. Imelda Staunton ("Nanny McPhee," "Vera Drake") is currently in talks to play Castle.   So where does the title come from? It was a banner that the protestors carried during one march which said "We Want Sex Equality." Later, they realized that the last word was missing.   Billy Ivory will write and Simon Curtis is directing.   Sally Hawkins achieved recognition for her work in last year's

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Freshman screenwriter Sam Esmail has been hired to adapt children's comic "The Ghouly Boys" for Mandate Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. Lindsay Doran (Nanny McPhee) is producing through her Three Strange Angels. J.C. Spink, Chris Bender and Jake Weiner of Benderspink and Mandate president Nathan Kahane will serve as executive producers. In 2006, Mandate picked up film rights to the spooky and comical graphic-novel series about a quartet of young monster outcasts and their efforts to fit in. Written and drawn by the single-named artist Christopher (Higginson), "Ghouly" was published in 2004 by Slave Labor Graphics. Esmail's script will follow two friends -- a young boy looking to contact his dead father and a young zombie seeking a way to come back to...

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Slave Labor Graphics' comic The Ghouly Boys is coming to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Ghouly Boys comic book series was created, written and illustrated by Christopher (he goes by just the one name) and was originally published by Slg Publishing (Slave Labor Graphics) in 2004. Lindsay Doran (Nanny McPhee) is producing the movie via her Three Strange Angels production company.
Here's hoping this is the first of many pieces of good news for Slg, which could use some of late.
Glenn Hauman

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