Stranger Things director to adapt James Wan’s sci-fi comic Malignant Man
As announced in The Hollywood Reporter, Rebecca Thomas, one of only three directors whose last name isn’t “Duffer” to have helmed an episode of Stranger Things, will take on a big-screen adaptation of the BOOM! Studios graphic novel Malignant Man. A sci-fi thriller about a man whose tumor turns out to be an alien parasite that grants him otherworldly powers, the book was co-written by James Wan, the director and creator of Saw whose since moved on to lead The Conjuring, Furious 7, and the upcoming Aquaman movie. Wan, along with BOOM! bosses Ross Richie and Stephen Christy, are producing the movie, which will be titled simply Malignant, for 20th Century Fox.