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DreamWorks Animation Developing ‘Ronan Boyle and the Book of Riddles’ Movie
Dave McNary Film ReporterDreamWorks Animation has launched development on the adventure-fantasy “Ronan Boyle and the Book of Riddles” as a movie with Irish director Fergal Reilly signed to direct as part of an overall deal with the studio.Tom Lennon’s “Ronan Boyle and the Book of Riddles” was a New York Times bestseller that was published last year and is a high-adventure fantasy tale set in a magical world of law-breaking leprechauns and deadly monsters. It was followed by “Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death.”Lennon will write the movie script based on his book series, which reinvents Irish mythological tropes seen through the eyes of awkward Irish teen Ronan Boyle who lives in the long shadow of his famous parents.
