Deadline.com had the exclusive. Mark Millar’s new series, Chrononauts has been picked up by Universal Pictures for a movie deal:
Chrononauts, just out this past Wednesday, and still available for less than cover price in many places, was picked up by Universal Pictures for a movie deal.
Universal Pictures has optioned Chrononauts, the time-traveling adventure comic book series from Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy, which Chris Morgan will produce under his Chris Morgan Productions banner. Millar and Murphy will exec produce. Chrononauts is an adventurous two-hander revolving around the first scientific duo who travel back through time. The first issue from Image Comics hits stores this week.
Vice President Ainsley Davies will oversee development for Chris Morgan Productions. Universal’s Director of Development Jay Polidoro will oversee the project for the studio. The deal was negotiated by Paradigm and Law Offices of Harris M. Miller II.
Morgan has written five titles in the billion-dollar Fast & Furious franchise including Furious 7, which bows April 3. Morgan and Alex Kurtzman will serve as the creative and narrative architects of a franchise incorporating various monster characters from the studio’s vast library beginning with The Mummy in June 2016.
Also, don’t forget the sweet Chrononauts #1 Third Eye Variant with the gents taking a selfie in front of the sinking Titanic
Stacks upon stacks at the local shops this week. It’s Millar, his only goal is to make movies, not even sure why he bothers with comics nowadays.. 😉
True. So true. It’s pretty much given nowadays that a new Millar book will get optioned from Hollywood.
Well, book just came out too.. that just means he’s presenting these stories to studios way ahead of them being released as well.. they just wait until the comic is released before announcement.
Rumors are out there that they’re about to make a movie announcement option on Mark Millar’s 5th grade poem assignment named “My Dog Barky”
Oh my.. I almost blew coffee out my nose reading that.. 😉
It has now been confirmed that 20th Century Fox has optioned Mark millar’s 5th grade poetry assignment
My Dog Barky, Ridley Scott set to direct, Jim Carey set to star. They are looking at this as a franchise and have committed to a 3 picture deal.
Ha! That’s just flat out classic!
Pretty soon it might be easier to list Image #1 books that are not optioned for a movie.
I just want to make a comic company called optioned comics and only have them optioned for movies tv or video games lol anyone else this is a smart move lol
O.F.M. Comics… or O.4.M. Comics…
Being a speculator, I’ve been wondering if making/announcing media deals the week of a books release is either a marketing move to sell that issue #1; or it doesn’t but hurts the comic for collector’s in the long run. If the comic is a hot property in its infancy, how does that effect it in the long run…?
And since this comic is already planned out for 3 series, 4-6 issues each, are we to be waiting 4 or more years for the finished compilation ?
Yeah that’s why I stopped buying Mark Millar books. I was readding MPH wich was good but only made it to issue 3 of the 5 mini series before I got fead up with the schedule release date. It got me of the mood of reading it. That book came out early last year and issue 5 just came out last month. And I bet they are going to do the same thing with this chrononauts series.