“Emo Boy” is going to the big screen with Kyle Newman to direct the adaptation. Stephen Edmond, the comic’s writer-artist, is writing the screenplay.

Emo, a cult comic book series, has a unique quality developed around fashion and music while an emotional description of someone who is overly sensitive or angst-ridden.  The story is riddled with satirical travails of the most self-dramatizing young man ever in the history of the world. His emotions are so intense he has “emo powers.”

According to Hollywood Reporter, the movie will lean towards music as a key component of the project, which has been described as being in the tone of Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Maude and Zoolander.