Variety is reporting on July 10, 2008 that Columbia Pictures has acquired a new motion picture property, Mythological Veterinarian. It is a comic pitch that will be written by Andrew Kurtzman and produced by Jimmy Miller. Principal Entertainment’s Danny Sherman will be executive producer.

Andrew Kurtzman has been a writer on Down Periscope (1996), Camp Nowhere (1994), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and 57 episodes (1982-1985) of “Saturday Night Live.”

Variety says the project is about a modern-day veterinarian who’s recruited by a secret society that watches over the world’s mythological creatures. Now that plot sounds rather strange. Are we to assume that this secret society is able to have contact with these creatures? Oh right, it’s only a movie.

From the working title of the project, it actually sounds like the vet is mythological, not his animal patients.