Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez from The New Yorker Emmy nominee Jonathan Krisel ( Portlandia ) has signed on to direct Universal’s feature take of the Simon Rich New Yorker short story Everyday Parenting Tips . Rich did the first pass, and now Travis Braun ( Vampirina , Monsters at Work ) is adapting. The project is being produced by Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood, who have a first look at Uni, as well as Maximum Effort Productions’ Ryan Reynolds and George Dewey. Ryan Reynolds is still looking to possibly star in the film, which is described as a four-quadrant family film. In Rich’s essay, a father offers advice on what to say when their child says they believe a monster lurks under the bed — that is at a time when an ongoing Monster Uprising is actually occurring on the globe. The creature pandemic has unleashed the likes of Gorgog the Annihilator, Ctharga the Eater of Souls and a “giant, swirling portal in the sky that looks like a screaming mouth” that is simply called Drain of Ga. Stay tuned for updates on the project as it heads toward production. via: Deadline