Exclusive! The Tale of One Bad Rat Film Rights Optioned

The rights to a film version of The Tale of One Bad Rat have been optioned by Grasp the Nettle Films, a company based in Devon and London. It is run by producer Rebecca Wolff and writer/director Dean Puckett. They are currently working on a slate of features including MAGPIE, a folk-horror backed by Bankside Films, and SEAGULL, which they are developing in collaboration with Early Day FIlms.

The multi-award winning The Tale of One Bad Rat, first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994, has never been out of print and seen many different editions, including around 15 foreign reprints. The story follows a runaway teenager, Helen Potter, an abuse survivor and visionary who, in the company of her pet rat, follows in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter from London to the English Lake District, there to discover her inner strength.