Freaks follows a boy named Trevor as he tries to protect his younger brother Will from their cruel father -- not that Will needs a lot of help, since something has caused him to grow into a massive, hulking brute, although his mind is still that of a child. (Think Sloth from Goonies, and you'll see where I was going with that one.) When Will accidentally kills their father, Trevor takes him on the lam, and even attempts to bust free some of the other freaks he knows are kept under lock and key in the homes of their neighbors. Sounds happy, right? Well, it'll get a lot cheerier with M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" on the soundtrack.

The script is by first-time writers Peter Sattler and Geoff Davey, which leads me to wonder if they simply wrote a script based on a comic book they liked and got lucky. I clearly have no idea how these things work, but I plan to crank out scripts based on some of my favorite obscure comic books and see if I can't get them made. Come 2011, keep an eye out for big-screen adaptations of Fight Man, Milk & Cheese, Destroy! and Danger Comics' Dick Boulder, Danger Man.