Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on March 25th, 2008 at 10:41am

Warner Bros. acquire book proposal, probably from the title alone

I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President might be the best title for a book I’ve ever seen and hopefully by the time Warner Bros. are done producing it, the film will keep the title intact.

The studio have acquired the book proposal from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart scribe Josh Lieb who will also adapt the script for McG to produce…

The premise centers on a chubby 13-year old boy who everybody assumes is the dumbest kid in the seventh grade. He really is an evil genius and the third-richest person on the planet, with a secret compound beneath his unsuspecting family’s modest suburban home. He hides his identity to keep himself safe from his enemies and because he can’t legally claim his empire until he turns 18.

The story concerns the boy’s attempt to prove himself in the eyes of his do-gooder father by being elected class president. Unfortunately, the tactics he uses to stage coups in Central America prove to be less effective in running a middle-school campaign.

HILARIOUS!

Apparentlay many of the studio’s who were rivalling Warner Bros. for the book rights to the novel were extremely surprised when WB hired McG (Charlie’s Angels, upcoming Terminator IV) to produce as his usual work is completely different to the spirit of the book.

Guess we will wait and see. LOVE THIS PREMISE!

Here’s an image of the book’s author who I’m pretty convinced the main character will be moddeled around him…

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source - the hollywood reporter

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Categories: I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil ad I Want to Be Your, Josh Lieb, Movie News, New Project, mcg

3 Comments »

  1. Sounds funny enough.

    Comment by Lencho | March 25, 2008

  2. Great premise and a great title indeed. Hopefully this’ll come good and make everyone forget the lame class president election action of the awful Napolean Dynamite…

    Comment by James Clayton | March 25, 2008

  3. The author looks like a hybrid of the 2 fellas in The Young Knives. Sounds like an interesting movie though.

    Comment by John Smith | March 25, 2008

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