RZA Set To Direct Grant Morrison’s ‘Happy’

It looks like Quentin Tarantino’s protege The RZA, who is set to make his directorial debut with next month’s The Man With The Iron Fists, has already lined up his next project. He will be teaming up with Grant Morrison to bring Morrison’s latest comic, keep in mind that only one issue of the mini-series has been released, Happy to the big screen. The comic debuted last month featuring art from Darick Robertson.

The script will be written by Morrison himself so don’t expect it to be too far off from the actual comic. But then again…none of us actually know what happens in the series past issue one so far. RZA is attached to direct and would produce with Hudlin, a producer on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. If you haven’t picked up the first issue of Happy, and after this news it’s probably not going to be easy to, you probably should. The book is kind of like if you took bits of It’s a Wonderful Life, Sin City, and Care Bears and mixed them all up into one neat little Grant Morrison package.

The synopsis for Happy:

Happy! centers on Nick Sax, a scummy corrupt ex-cop and hitman. After a hit goes bad and Sax is left gravely injured, he is suddenly able to see Happy, a cheerful little blue horse who won’t give in to adversity, no matter what unpleasant obstacles come in the way. Days before Christmas, Sax teams up with the saccharine horse to the save the life of a troubled kid and maybe find redemption amid the squalor of his city.

Source: THR