Robert Zemeckis (Flight, Real Steel) and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos (Snow White and the Huntsman) are developing a big-screen adaptation of Dark Horse Comics‘ four-issue steampunk paranormal adventure series, Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained created by Peter M. Lenkov (R.I.P.D.) and Frazer Irving.

THR reports that the adaptation for Universal Pictures, called simply Charles Fort is being described by some who know the material as a “period Ghostbusters” that is is based on an early 20th century American researcher who wrote about mysterious events and “anomalous phenomena.” He penned such books as “The Book of the Damned” (1919) and “New Lands” (1923), which touched on themes that included alien abduction, teleportation, spontaneous human combustion and levitation.

The 2002 comic book series penned by Lenkov saw Fort become a paranormal investigator who clashed with aliens and murderers with the help of a young H. P. Lovecraft in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City.

 

 

No production or release dates have been announced for Charles Fort.