A few years ago, we learned that Emma Roberts (American Horror Story) was attached to star in director Dan Mazer's big screen adaptation of Anya's Ghost, an award-winning graphic novel by Russian writer and illustrator Vera Brosgol. Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking) penned the screenplay of the supernatural comedy, but the story of a teenage girl who rescues a ghost from an underground cave with unforeseen circumstances has seemingly fallen by the wayside.
Talking to us about taking the helm of Home Sweet Home Alone (which is now streaming on Disney+), Mazer explained that the movie not happening was out of his control. The filmmaker - best known for his work with Sacha Baron Cohen - is also open to working in the Marvel or DC Universes.
"I take everything on its merits really and I’m sort of agnostic whether it’s Marvel, DC, or Home Alone or Sacha or Anya’s Ghost or any of those things," Mazer reveals in the video below. "If something arrives, I’m not really too worried about its genesis or where it came from."
"The Anya’s Ghost script…I loved it. Patrick Ness wrote the original adaptation of it and it was really fantastic. What happened with that is the studio we were making it with folded about three months before we were supposed to start shooting. We had a cast. Actually, we’d cast brilliantly, and we were getting ready, but CBS Films as it was then just stopped making films. It kind of evaporated and something else came along, but that was fantastic and I loved it. I had great fun with that."
It would be great to see Anya's Ghost return in some form, but it appears the filmmaker has moved on to other projects. You never know when an adaptation like this will be resurrected, though!
Check out our full interview with the Home Sweet Home Alone filmmaker below: