Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired feature film rights to the Brit children's TV show comedy, "Rentaghost." The movie version, described as a "Beetlejuice"- like comedy, will be a studio vehicle for comedian Russell Brand.
Brand would play 'Fred Mumford', "...a recently deceased guy determined to be more productive as a corpse than he was during his life as a slacker. He attempts to set himself up in a business with a couple of other ghouls, starting a temp agency for the dead. Mumford and cohorts rent out ghouls and ghosts to the living, until things go awry..."
The original series, created by Bob Block, aired on the UK's BBC1 from 1976-1984, following the antics of a group of spooks who worked for a firm called 'Rentaghost', which leased out the ghosts for various tasks.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Rentaghost"...
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired feature film rights to the Brit children's TV show comedy, "Rentaghost." The movie version, described as a "Beetlejuice"- like comedy, will be a studio vehicle for comedian Russell Brand.
Brand would play 'Fred Mumford', "...a recently deceased guy determined to be more productive as a corpse than he was during his life as a slacker. He attempts to set himself up in a business with a couple of other ghouls, starting a temp agency for the dead. Mumford and cohorts rent out ghouls and ghosts to the living, until things go awry..."
The original series, created by Bob Block, aired on the UK's BBC1 from 1976-1984, following the antics of a group of spooks who worked for a firm called 'Rentaghost', which leased out the ghosts for various tasks.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Rentaghost"...
