Rentaghost may scare up Madagascar and Megamind director Tom McGrath for Ben Stiller comedy
The project would mark animation helmer McGrath's first step into helming live-action films, after having worked with stiller on all three films in DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar franchise, reports Variety.
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at the Museum) script the pic based on the BBC childrens series which ran between 1976-1984 and tells of a man whose recently died and starts RentaGhost - a company leasing ghosts and ghouls to the living.
Rentaghost is being produced by Kevin McCormick (Warner Bros. Pictures' recently shifted Gangster Squad) via his Langley Park, as well as BermanBraun's Gail Berman, Lloyd Brow and Patrick Pidgeon.