A few weeks back it was announced that J. Michael Straczynski’s Rising Stars was optioned for a movie. Now, JMS’ Midnight Nation has been optioned as well.
Copies of Midnight Nation #1 started moving off eBay earlier. Amazon has copies of the first issue for $3 if you want to check it out. Mycomicshop has copies for $1.35 in VF but they will probably not last long. They also have copies of the Dynamic Forces Euorpean edition which Amazon has for just under $7. The series premiered in the Wizard 1/2 edition which can also be found pretty easily.
From Bleeding Cool:
He has finally said yes to Gale Ann Hurd. She is one of the biggest genre producers there is with production and writing credits including Terminator, T2, Aliens, Alien Nation, Abyss, Hulk, Punisher, Aeon Flux and more recently The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead.
Describing Midnight Nation as about the disenfranchised, the lost, the throwaways, the runaways, those who live on top of the world and under the world, he says that the story has become more important now that it ever has before, about how we are marginalised as citizens and what we lose in the course of that.
He and Gale Ann Hurd have taken Midnight Nation to Universal, who have agreed to pick it up as a series for development, and JMS is writing the pilot script.
He said he’s start writing the pilot in two weeks – or as we now call it, one week.
It comes alongside the announcement that MGM will be making a Rising Stars movie. And the news that he will no longer be writing comic books…
JMS no longer writing comics benefits us all. I made a blog post some time ago about how I dislike almost all of his stuff except the startlingly amazing, “Supreme Power,” that gave us a stellar 18 issues, then petered-out into mini-series and reboots that were pretty atrocious (sometimes with JMS writing, sometimes with others).
I’m not going to argue with you on this.. except I haven’t read Supreme Power. I kept giving JMS chances and would quickly drop them.. I mean, quickly. Most wouldn’t go beyond issue 2.. if they made it that far. I think the only one I enjoyed was surprisingly Sidekick (I enjoyed this seeing a super hero turn villain and very dark) and Terminator Salvation, which wasn’t the best but not horrible.
Dream Police, Protectors Inc., horrible I tell you.. all horrible. Ten Grand had promise but after issue 2 the story started to fall apart, it had nothing to do with Ten Grand very quickly into the story line and just turned into a convoluted mess.
The only problem with him no longer writing comics is.. he’s gonna likely be writing shows, which means, more than half of them are going to suck donkey balls if we go based on his comics he’s released. 🙁
Because Tony said my shameless plugs are always welcome, here is the piece:
http://www.thenewestrant.com/2014/07/the-best-comic-by-someone-whose-work.html
Shameless.
Ol’ Shameless David!
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Which cover? Seems to have multiple on EBay.
Another option, but if it goes though the Dynamic force covers of #1 from 2000 may gain some steam. The standard DF cover had a print run of 10k, the gold foil 4k and the blue foil 1k from what I can gather.
Nice update man. Appreciate the numbers.
No problem at all! Hope those interested get a couple while they are cheap…just in case!
I loved this book back when it was coming out, but haven’t re-read it since. It was the first time I really noticed Gary Frank’s artwork, and came to appreciate it.