It appears to be like like one other movie primarily based on a graphic novel is underway: Afterburn, primarily based on the Red Five comedian by Scott Chitwood, Paul Ens and Wayne Nichols is set to begin filming with Dave Bautista within the lead, and Samuel L. Jackson enjoying the type of position Samuel L. Jackson performs. Deadline had the announcement.
Bautista will play Jake, a treasure hunter in a post-apocalyptic world, who goes on missions to amass artifacts from the outdated world; this day trip it’s the Mona Lisa.
According to Deadline, this movie is set to enter manufacturing with director J.J. Perry (The Killer’s Game, Day Shift) whose bona fides embody second-unit director and stunt coordinator on the John Wick and Fast & The Furious franchises. So there can be motion. Others concerned embody producers Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious franchise), Toby Jaffe (Total Recall) and Steve Richards (Sherlock Holmes franchise, The Matrix trilogy).
The story is one which the producers have been attempting to get to the display screen for six years. (At one level expensive, expensive Gerard Butler was hooked up.)
“Afterburn is a terrific action story, combining the fun of Indiana Jones with the near future world building of Children of Men,” Jaffe advised Deadline. “J.J. is going to bring this to life in a thrilling way, using real practical stunt work to create authentic, visceral set pieces.”
If you’re questioning why the producers had been so scorching for this for therefore lengthy, maybe this description of 1 problem of the comedian offers you an concept:
On a mission-for-hire within the Eastern Hemisphere wasteland, Jake finds himself in flooded Hong Kong battling mutant pirates and sharks! Oh, and a gang of rival ninjas, too!
Face it, irresistible.
If you surprise why we run this type of movie manufacturing information, effectively there are a number of causes, however primarily as a result of, sure, media variations straight have an effect on a comics writer’s backside line, (not even going into the businesses whose total enterprise mannequin relies on this.)
Red Five Comics has been round for a very long time, and they’re nonetheless in there plugging, although they don’t usually get talked about when rounding up comics publishers. Founded in 2007 by Chitwood and Ens, the writer is greatest identified for Atomic Robo, by Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener, which began in 2007 and remains to be being revealed, with a thirteenth quantity popping out in 2019. Other books of word embody Dragon Whisperer by Alex del Luca and Glen Fernandez, the latest Maeve by Kevin G Corcoran, Cristiano Seixas and Caio Majado and popping out later this spring The Gods are Fallen, from Matt Ringel and Henry Ponciano.
So yeah, Red Five has been at this some time, and when an motion packed Afterburn movie comes out, they’ll get much more consideration, very like this very submit. But props to them for sticking round in a troublesome marketplace for small publishers.
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