Bio pic of Mad Magazine publisher William M. Gaines in the works

From Deadline Hollywood:
John Landis, who’s in Cannes to promote Ealing Studios’ comedy Burke and Hare, tells me he’s lining up the financing for a movie about EC Comics publisher and co-creator Bill Gaines, who was driven out of the comic book business by 1950s morality policers after his unapologetic testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. Gaines retaliated by converting one of his titles Mad into a satirical magazine which specialized in skewering all aspects of uptight society. Joel Eisenberg has written the screenplay Ghoulishly Yours, William M Gaines.

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