| Release Date: | TBA |
| Cast: | TBA |
| Director: | TBA |
| Screen Writer(s): | Jonathan Hales |
| Official Site: | TBA |
| Trailers: | None |
| Status: | Script Stage |
| Synopsis/Plot: | The tale of a young, imaginative boy who spends his free time talking to a stone gargoyle statue on top of his apartment building. The gargoyle comes to life when a 100-year-old curse is lifted, and it sets out on a quest with the boy in search of a talisman that will return it to permanent flesh-and-blood form. |
| News and Rumors: |
March 16, 2003: From Variety thanks also to Creature-Corner.com:
Columbia Pictures is aiming for yet another Marvel Entertainment franchise, hiring "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" scribe Jonathan Hales to adapt the long-dormant comicbook "The Gargoyle." The deal is described as earning Hales a mid-six-figure sum for the script and a salary in the low-seven figures if the film gets made. Hales, who also penned "The Scorpion King" for Universal Pictures, said his script has "actually very little connection" with the Marvel comic book's storyline. The original was penned by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Mark Badger, and was published in a limited series from June through September 1985. It followed a human soul trapped within a Gargoyle's form. Reached at his home in London, Hales described his script as "a mother/son tale" about a young, imaginative boy who spends much of his free time talking to a gargoyle statue on top of his apartment building. This gargoyle comes to life when a 100-year-old curse is lifted, and it begins a hunt for the talisman that will return it to permanent flesh-and-blood form. Marvel CEO Avi Arad is in final negotiations to produce the film at Sony's Columbia Pictures, with plans being hatched to bring another, as-yet-undisclosed Sony-based producer aboard.
