It's not the most well-known work from actor-producer and soon-to-be director Seth Green but his comic book "The Freshmen" co-created with Hugh Sterbakov is on the track to be adapted to a motion picture.Splashpage MTV reports that Green, who also produces the hilarious stop-motion animated series "Robot Chicken," is planning to develop his comic published by Top Cow in 2005 as a film he will both write and direct.
I like to flip through whatever catches my eye on the comic store racks and that cover art on "The Freshmen" #1 was quite visually arresting.
I didn't know it was by Green but the story about a team of college kids housed together who acquire unusual and sometimes ridiculous powers made me smile. (There's a guy who drinks, makes himself sick-to-death hungover and can make you as ill as he is.)
The series didn't move me like "The Umbrella Academy" did last year, but I could see the potential in there being a live-action element if it was pursued by the creators. And here we are.
Green expects the film to be low budget -- around $35 million (that's low budget?) -- and he plans to gather the funds himself and perhaps bypass a few Hollywood production barriers to get it done. More details here.
(Article edited for clarity because I am sleep deprived.)
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