Thunderbird, Sandpiper Entertainment and ScreenWest are developing “Modo,” a film adaptation of Arthur Slade’s steampunk novel “The Hunchback Assignments”.
The first novel in a series, the story follows a child hunchback plucked from a freak show and raised in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association – a spy agency for Brittania and its efforts to oversee its empire.
At age fourteen, he’s dumped on the streets of London and, with another Association agent, uncovers a plot by the Clockwork Guild behind the murders of important men.
Paul Barron (“Serangoon Road”) and Alex Raffe (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) will produce.
Source: Variety
