Peter Segal Charts "Goblins!"

Deadline reports that Disney has hired "Get Smart" helmer Peter Segal to direct the film adaptation of the children's book "Goblins!" by author Ari Berk and acclaimed illustrator Brian Froud.

 Here’s the description of the book:

Anyone who brings home this book will be in big trouble. Renowned artist Brian Froud and scholar Ari Berk have conducted a thorough investigation into the goblin realm. (For the uninformed, goblins, a subspecies of faery, are those maleficent creatures that cause all manner of havoc in the human realm.) The fruit of their labor, however, turned out to be a rotten apple: the book is infected with goblins. Now, thanks largely to Froud and Berk's continuing carelessness, the noxious, viscid, and largely nonsensical volume has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Among its pages are reproductions of the ancient, odoriferous Codex Goblinensis; a glossary of common goblins and their markings; and a gazetteer of goblin photographs taken with the arcane Goblin Camera. Those fearing an infestation can refer to the section detailing how to determine if you've "got goblins" and, if so, what you can do about it. (There is nothing you can do about it.) Combining the folkloric approach of Faeries with the utter wackiness of Lady Cottington, this is the team's most visually rich and outrageous opus yet.

Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember are set to pen the adapted screenplay

Sagal and Michael Ewing will produce.the pic

Froud is a Hugo-winning artist who worked as Jim Henson’s conceptual designer on Labyrinth and  The Dark Crystal .