According to Deadline, Fox Searchlight is looking to bring Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel WILSON to the big screen. Clowes will reportedly adapt the screenplay himself as a potential directing vehicle for the very appropriate Alexander Payne (THE DESCENDANTS, SIDEWAYS).
The skinny on the comic, per Deadline: “Wilson tells the story of an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and maybe nobody else and who begins a quest to find human connection with his ex-wife.”
You may recall Clowes’ name from a couple of other graphic novel-turned-films: GHOST WORLD and ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, adaptations of which were also penned by Clowes and directed by BAD SANTA helmer Terry Zwigoff.