Gabe & Tycho Get a Movie

Via THR,

If you were wondering what the next answer to Scott Pilgrim and/or Serenity style pickups - re: small-scale niche movie projects that generate PREPOSTEROUS levels of web hype right out of the gate almost-assuredly setting up unreasonable expectations from the gobsmacked studio - you now have your answer: Paramount is setting up an animated theatrical featured based on "The New Kid," a premise (kid is newly-enrolled as the only earthling in an alien elementry school) originally launched as one of the "New Ideas" spinoffs on Penny Arcade.

So, yeah. Whether they realize it or not - and regardless of the series' main characters not actually being part of it - Paramount has essentially greenlit what The Web will now unavoidably regard as "The Penny Arcade Movie;" instantly rendering every scrap of info about the production of what would otherwise sound like any other high-concept kiddie flick some of the most sought-after nuggets in the geekdom.

If they're smart, someone at Paramount is ALREADY putting together something for Comic-Con, where ANY mention of this will pack a hall, easily.