Disney has purchased the rights to yet-unpublished book GRANDMA'S INTERGALACTIC BED & BREAKFAST by Clete Smith, reports VARIETY. Mandeville Films will adapt the property into a family-friendly feature, with studio-based David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman to produce.
Their Mandeville shingle recently produced BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA for Disney, as well as their upcoming SURROGATES with Bruce Willis. A writer has not been hired to adapt Smith's debut novel, which is about a boy who visits his hippie grandmother for the first time and finds out her B&B caters to vacationing aliens, which she keeps a secret from the small town she lives in.
