Brad Pitt To Take Battling Boy To The Big Screen

Brad Pitt is to strengthen behind the camera to take a new superhero on the big screen - Battling Boy. The actor production company Plan B has bought the film rights for the next comic book, about the son of a god who travels down from his mountain home to battle monsters. The novel is due for release in 2010, and a movie version should follow their example - once Pitt took a writer to adapt the story for the big screen.