{"id":73597,"date":"2015-03-24T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=73597"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:15:13","slug":"i-kill-giants-movie-coming-from-harry-potter-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/i-kill-giants-movie-coming-from-harry-potter-director\/","title":{"rendered":"I Kill Giants movie coming from Harry Potter director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73598\" alt=\"I Kill Giants\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants-600x497.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Joe Kelly&#xA0;and&#xA0;J.M. Niimura&#x2019;s acclaimed graphic novel <strong><em>I Kill Giants<\/em><\/strong> is getting the movie treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/i-kill-giants-movie\/\">SlashFilm<\/a> reports that veteran filmmaker Chris Columbus (<strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Gremlins<\/em><\/strong>) is set to produce the movie, and that Danish director Anders Walter will making his feature debut behind the camera. Walters has an Oscar for best short film for <strong><em>Helium<\/em><\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I Kill Giants<\/em><\/strong> &#x201C;centers around a young outsider named Barbara Thorson. Her inability to fit in makes her life difficult, and she copes by escaping into a fantasy in which giants are real and it&#x2019;s her job to stop them.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kill-Giants-Titan-Joe-Kelly\/dp\/1607061724\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1427209901&sr=8-3&keywords=i+kill+giants&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>I Kill Giants<\/em> Titan Edition for &#xA3;29.99 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>.&#xA0;<strong><strong><strong>For more on the comics that inspire the series, pick up&#xA0;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/100-all-time-greatest-comics.html\">our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kelly and J.M. Niimura&#8217;s graphic novel I Kill Giants names producers and director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":73598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4398],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Kill-Giants.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}