Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro is a man who seems to do only two things: start up new movie projects and dominate the hotel buffet. Yes, he certainly is a man who likes to eat, but let’s put that aside for now and focus on the other thing he does oh so well: starting up new projects.

Del Toro has signed on to adapt DC Comics’ Deadman into a live-action film with him acting as a producer for the project, and while I had no idea about the existence of this Deadman comic until now, I am very excited about this news since apparently a fellow countryman of mine, the Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, is going to direct the flick. Huzzah!

Deadman will be a Crow-esque thriller centering around a circus tightrope walker who gets murdered only to return as a ghost having the ability to inhabit the bodies of others in order to find his killer. Arcel, who will direct, has previously made the Danish fantasy film Island of Lost Souls which starred Lars Mikkelsen, the lesser known brother of Casino Royale star Mads Mikkelsen.