I have been slightly out of commission lately. Here is a wrap up of recent comic book movie and tv news that has some spec.
Danger Girl has been picked up by Constantin Films as a movie and as a TV show. Danger Girl is the 1998 J Scott Campbell 7 issue series (yes, he used to draw fun comics) may have first appeared in the 1997 Cliifhanger Sketchbook #0.
Screen Rant mentioned that:
J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell, the comic series’ creators, have signed up as executive producers of the adaptations, along with Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film. Set to produce are Jeremy Bolt (Bolt Pictures) and Adrian Askarieh (Prime Universe Films), whose production companies will collaborate with Constantin Film on the movie and TV show. Deadline quotes Bolt as saying that “Danger Girl is the perfect opportunity to create a team of grounded, relatable, and dangerous young female characters, but with humor and spectacular action.”
Campbell and Hartnell launched Danger Girl in 1998 through Wildstorm. The series follows Abbey Chase and her fellow female secret agents as they do battle against the Hammer Syndicate, an expectedly evil group striving toward world domination. Chase and co. will primarily be in the hands of Constantin Film, the company behind the Resident Evil movies (as well as an unreleased Fantastic Four film from 1994).
Deadline.com had the exclusive that James Franco is potentially going to play Multiple man, Jamie Madrox, in a stand alone film. Madrox the Multiple Man first appears in Giant Size Fantastic Four #4.
From Deadline:
Fox is developing a film vehicle for James Franco to play the Marvel Comics character Multiple Man, with Wonder Woman scribe Allan Heinberg writing the script, and Simon Kinberg and his Genre Films producing along with Franco and Ramona Films, the shingle that Franco runs with brother Dave Franco and Vincent Jolivette.
The character is part of the X-Men universe, which Fox controls and continues to exploit with Kinberg at the center of all the movies. Multiple Man is Jamie Madrox, who, in the comics, conveyed his cloning powers at birth, when a second, identical version of him appeared after the doctor slapped the infant to get him to breathe. His father, a worker at the Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center, moved his family to a remote farm where his son — fitted with a special suit to control his powers designed by X-Men patriarch Professor Xavier — lived quietly until the suit malfunctioned and he began to go crazy. His cloning abilities drove Madrox to have various collisions and collaborations with both the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Jeremy Kramer will oversee it for Fox and the deals are being made now.
And finally, Comeback from Image comics is being adapted, in part, by Robert Kirkman for Sony. Copies of Comeback #1 can be found cheap still.
Nacho Vigalondo, the filmmaker behind the Anne Hathaway monster movie Colossal, is teaming with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman to adapt the Image comic book The Comeback.
Sony Pictures has the rights to the time-travel thriller package that will see Vigalondo write and direct the project that Kirkman will produce via his Skybound Entertainment banner.
Vigalondo’s creative partner, Nahikari Ipina, will also produce, as will Kirkman’s Skybound cohorts David Alpert and Sean and Bryan Furst.