Like almost everything in eleven-year-old Eric âDoodlesâ Kingâs life, Kingâs Wonderlandâthe amusement park his great-great grandfather foundedâwas seriously damaged when a hurricane hit his beloved Coney Island neighborhood. Now hungry property developers are circling the wreckage of the once-awesome Kingâs Wonderland, and Ericâs family is falling apart from the threat of losing it all.
If it werenât for Monster Clubâthe epic roleplaying game that Eric and his friends createdâEricâs life would be pretty terrible. Drawing his favorite monster battling with his best friendsâ creations is the one thing that still gets Eric excited. So when his friends start to think of Monster Club as a kidâs game and get more interested in other things, Eric just canât deal. But then Eric happens across a long-lost vial of magic ink that brings their monster drawings to life, and suddenly, Monster Club isnât just for fun anymore.
The monsters Eric and his friends created are wreaking havoc across Coney, and itâs on the Monster Club to save their city, the amusement park, and maybe, just maybe, Ericâs family, too. Itâs a hilarious, heartfelt adventure from the creative minds of Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel that fans of Last Kids on Earth and Spy School are sure to love.Â
Darren Aronofsky is a Coney Islandâraised, Academy Awardânominated screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for his surreal, high-concept work in films like Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler, and mother!
Ari Handel is a scientist, writer, producer, and storyteller. He and Darren Aronofsky have worked together for more than twenty years on many projects, including The Fountain, Noah, and the National Geographic series One Strange Rock, Welcome to Earth, and Limitless.