Howard Abramson

The film, in which Roberts plays the ghost, is adapted by A Monster Calls writer Patrick Ness from Vera Brosgol’s Eisner-winning graphic novel.

With five mostly successful movies, and with hit television shows like “Sleepy Hollow” and “Lucifer,” Wiseman’s new “Underworld” series will be a new vision of the concept.

The long-time Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator will direct the supernatural comedy based on Vera Brosgol’s Eisner-winning graphic novel, which has been adapted by Patrick Ness of A Monster Calls and Chaos Walking.

With multiple studios bidding on the sci-fi manuscript that’s being compared to Looper and Ready Player One, it’s Lionsgate who comes out on top to win newcomer Tal M. Klein’s first book.