Watch a Short Film Based on DC Pierson’s ‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To’

DC Pierson recently teamed up with Community and Mystery Team director Dan Eckman and producer Meggie McFadden to turn his 2010 novel The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To into a movie. In the meantime, they posted a proof-of-concept short today to give an idea of what a feature-length film might look like starring The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tony Revolori and The Hunger Games’s Jack Quaid. It’s equal parts trippy, funny, scary, and nerdy and proves that, in Revolori’s words, “when there’s something special about you, bad people always show up to take you away.”