A couple of years ago we brought you the news when Warner Bros. Pictures snagged the rights to Jeff Smith‘s beloved comic series Bone. Not much has been heard about the progress of the project since then, and we were beginning to wonder if it may never even happen.

Now, THR reports that Patrick Sean Smith (Greek) has been hired by the studio to pen the big-screen adaptation, P.J. Hogan (Mental) has been lined up to direct the film, and Dan Lin of Lin Pictures and Animal Logic will produce the project for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Bone is a 55-issue comic book series spanning 1991 to 2004 that follows “three cousins from the Bone family who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses. The trio are run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.” Smith drew inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien among other fantasy and epic story tellers.

No production or release dates have been announced for Bone.