FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves – fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles – enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?
X-Men Origins: Wolverine just clawed its way through the box office and now star, Hugh Jackman, is attached to Ghostopolis. The film is based on an upcoming graphic novel from Doug TenNapel that the author recently set up at Disney.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the story follows a man who works for the government’s Supernatural Immigration Task Force. His job is to send ghosts who have escaped into our world back to Ghostopolis. When a living boy accidentally is sent to the other side, the agent must team with a female ghost (and former flame) to bring him back.
TenNapel’s graphic novels are hot commodities as movie projects, with nearly all of them in different development stages at studios.
Graphic novel “Gearhead” film rights have been bought by Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures (The Incredible Hulk).
Hurd is set to produce Gearhead, which was created by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon and published as a four-issue series by Arcana Comics.
The graphic story pivots around a young woman who ditches the drag strip to join forces with a group of rebels to fight the crooked superheroes who govern the U.S.
It seems as though Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to “Headshot”, a three-book graphic novel series by Alexis Nolent, published in France and apparently a big hit there. So far, graphic novel-turned-movies have been a big hit in the box office. As far as I can remember, there’s Sin City, 300 and most recently, Wanted. Hopefully, Headshot will follow in the steps of its predecessor.
In “Headshot,” an unlikely alliance between a cop and a hitman takes place after each watches his partner die. The new partners seek revenge and discover they have a shared enemy and much in common despite being on opposite sides of the law.
So far, story seems to be intriguing. Let’s just wait and see.
Graphic novel “Julius” is going to the big screen if Mandalay Pictures can make it happen. They recently purchased the rights with F. Gary Gray is attached to direct.
Written by Antony Johnston and illustrated by Brett Weldele, “Julius” is a contemporary urban crime adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
Gray’s directing credits include The Italian Job and The Negotiator.
Disney has picked up the graphic novel, Monster Attack Network, an adventure tale, written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman with art by Nima Sorat. The graphic novel tells a story set on the picture-perfect Pacific island of Lapuatu, which is populated by giant monsters. On the island, a team of adventurers deal with rampages and related crises and clean up messes afterwards. The team faces its biggest challenge when a shady industrialist shows up.
Disney senses another Men In Black type of franchise with Monsters Attack Network. Let’s hope that Disney keeps the story to the graphic novel – it deserves to be exactly like the book.
IGN Filmforce reports that the Oni Press graphic novel The Last Call has been optioned for major film treatment by Universal Pictures and producer Barry Josephson. They have hired Evan Spiliotopoulos – best known for The Box - to pen the screenplay adaptation.
The graphic novel focused on two teens on a joyride who get hit by a train – an interdimensional soul carrier – and find themselves trying to solve a mystery that will allow them to return to their regular lives.
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