Posts Tagged ‘WildStorm’
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 22nd, 2008
Latino Review (via IMPA) featured a new poster today for the upcoming sci-fi movie, Push, from Summit Entertainment. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the mind behind Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin, and currently Four Knights, Push is, think, Heroes, or X-Men with psychics. The movie has garnered a good following. A prequel miniseries (written by EW’s Mrc Bernardin and Adam Freeman wih art by Bruno Redondo) has even been developed from DC’s Wildstorm to set up the world of Push.
Still, I’m a little apprehensive about the premise of Push, but I’ve enjoyed McGuigan’s previous films so I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed. A little more hope, McGuigan promises great characterization–a must in any good story. He tells MTV, “This year alone, you see movies like Incredible Hulk and Wanted, and these are good movies, but they end up being all about the technology. You tend to forget about the storyline and the characterization and I wanted to do something that was a bit more old-school than that. I wanted the technology to become involved later on. Read the full interview.
Synopsis: Push is a sci-fi thriller that takes us into the secret world of psychic espionage. Our hero is Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a young man whose father was genetically altered to be the perfect government assassin. After the brutal murder of his father, Nick swears revenge on the agency that created him.
Hidden in the underworld of Hong Kong, Nick assembles a group of rogue psychics to defeat Division, the covert agency responsible for creating and experimenting with psychic drugs for decades. (more…)
Posted by dominie in Comics, Films, News on October 19th, 2008
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has signed newcomer Brad Ingelsby (The Honeyfields) to pen the script for DC Comics/WildStorm’s Sleeper comic book for the big screen.
In August, Tom Cruise was loosely attached to join Sam Raimi in developing the adaptation. Cruise’s involvement, though not officially signed, has seemingly set the project on the fast track for a 2011 release date and Warner Bros. is hoping to turn Sleeper into a new studio franchise. Cruise will rumored to star, while Raimi and Josh Donen will produce the film through their Stars Road Entertainment banner.
In regards to Ingelsby, early this year in March, he made his first script sale, The Low Dweller, a thriller feature to Relativity Media for $500,000 against $1 million, which Ridley Scott is now attached to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star.
The original Sleeper comic, written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, “is a high-tech noir series published from 2003-05 that puts superheroes in a stylish, hard-boiled crime saga not unlike The Departed.” The series follows the protagonist, Holden Carver (a.k.a The Conductor) a spy placed undercover in a criminal organization led by TAO, a WildC.A.T.s villain. Carver is fused with an alien artifact that causes him to be impervious to pain and have the ability to pass on the specialty to other through skin contact. When Carver’s only real link to the outside, John Lynch, falls into a coma, Carver’s life spirals into an internal struggle between right and wrong while he rises through the ranks under TAO’s organization.
Posted by bob in Comics, News on August 13th, 2008
WildStorm will release The Ferryman on October 8, a five-issue miniseries coming from Dark Castle. The project is being written by Marc Andreyko (Friday the 13th: Pamela’s Tale) and drawn by Jonathan Wayshack. “It’s been a great working with Jon,” Andreyko said of his collaborator. “When I look at the pages, I’m like ‘Oh my God, this is awesome!’ He just took my words and brought them to vivid life, which I’m just thrilled with. The book will sell because of the art; it just draws you into this world.
“Dark Castle generated the idea,” Andreyko told ShockTillYouDrop.com. “I’ve known Erik Olsen and Joel’s company for years. Joel [Silver] had been interested in the concept of the Ferryman and the River Styx. He wanted to do something contemporary with it, so that’s what I was given. From there, I brought to the table people selling their soul to the Devil. Eventually the Devil is going to collect on that so the Ferrymen carry the souls to hell.” (more…)
Posted by bob in Events, News on August 12th, 2008
WildStorm will release the second volume of comics based on Friday the 13th. Debuting, of course, in time for Halloween, the series collects Pamela’s Tale #1-2, Abuser and the Abused #1, Summer Vacation #1-2 and Bad Land #1-2. The 160-page collection features writers Marc Andreyko (Manhunter), Jason Aaron (Wolverine), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), and Joshua Hale Fialkov. Artists include Adam Archer, Andy B, Shawn Moll and Mike Huddleston. Mike McKone (Fantastic Four) provides the cover art.
Posted by bob in Comics, News on June 29th, 2008
At WizardWorld Chicago, WildStorm announced several new titles which are right up our alley.
First, they have Gears of War, based on the video game and written by Joshua Ortega (Red Sonja). Ortega has been working on the game for years and knows this world inside and out. Liam Sharp will be providing the pulse-pounding artwork. At the panel, Editor Shannon Denton noted “My wife wishes I didn’t know so much about the game.”
Tying in to next month’s X-Files movie will be a comic that Denton described as more like Season 5 than directly tied to the movie. This would mark the property’s third publisher after Topps Comics and IDW each took a turn. The 40-page one-shot was written by the series’ Frank Spotnitz with art by Brian Denham.
Our pal Chuck Dixon is back with Storming Paradise, which is an alternate history of World War II, postulating what if the United States had chosen not to drop the nuclear bombs on Japan. Given the reality was that a massive invasion with estimates of millions of casualties on both sides, this could be a blood event.
Latino Review (via IMPA) featured a new poster today for the upcoming sci-fi movie, Push, from Summit Entertainment. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the mind behind Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin, and currently Four Knights, Push is, think, Heroes, or X-Men with psychics. The movie has garnered a good following. A prequel miniseries (written by EW’s Mrc Bernardin and Adam Freeman wih art by Bruno Redondo) has even been developed from DC’s Wildstorm to set up the world of Push.
