AWA Studios has simply introduced the formation of a creative council to assist them develop their comics slate, and it’s an all-star bunch: Oscar®, Golden Globe® and Emmy®-award nominated director, producer and screenwriter Reginald Hudlin (Sidney, Boomerang, Django Unchained); The New York Times #1 internationally best-selling creator and screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, Sweet Girl); acclaimed producer and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Terminator, Altered Carbon); blockbuster director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron); well-liked comic, author, actor, podcaster, and producer Al Madrigal (Lopez vs. Lopez, The Daily Show, Night School, The Way Back); and prolific TV creator and legendary comedian author J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Sense8, Thor).
An spectacular line up! JMS, Hurwitz and Kosinski all have tasks of varied varieties cooking at AWA. So what’s going to these visionaries do with AWA Studios? According to PR, they’ll “help shape the overall evolution of AWA’s creator-driven mission and continually redefine the cutting edge of storytelling. The Council’s guidance will benefit AWA’s roster of writers and artists by helping unleash the full potential of their characters and stories, providing a diversity of contemporary storytelling perspectives and putting projects in the best position to be scaled across the entertainment ecosystem.”
I’ve spent a while in author’s rooms, and one other approach of placing that is “kicking some ideas around” – but it surely’s very helpful kicking and that’s the way you get issues to the following stage.
Or more formally, “At AWA, we are focused on building a next generation entertainment company that is laser focused on supporting creators by helping ground-breaking story ideas grow and scale to their fullest potential. Our Council members have exceptional achievements in Hollywood and share a powerful and personal connection to graphic fiction,” stated Matthew Anderson, the co-chairman and president of AWA. “We’re honored to collaborate with and share in the Council’s collective wisdom and experience which will help AWA consistently develop powerful original packages along with our TV, film, and Web3 partners.”
According to their firm information, AWA has been very profitable at getting their properties into improvement, and probably the creative committee will assist with all that. More PR beneath:
In just some brief years, AWA has established itself as an business chief when it comes to its relationships with established and rising creators by offering writers and artists the liberty, incentive construction, and assist to pursue their boldest, most unique and socially related work. AWA’s movie & TV studio helps its creators each develop their unique concepts from buzzed about graphic literature into multi-faceted leisure properties that keep true to their imaginative and prescient and retain a big possession stake of their creations. This strategy has enabled the corporate to grow to be one of many hottest comedian publishers right this moment, shortly surpassing over one million comics bought, whereas making its properties in demand in Hollywood. AWA Studios has more than 20 movie and TV tasks in energetic improvement, many in partnership with main studios, streamers and networks.
The Creative Council is a highly-differentiating part of the AWA enterprise mannequin. In addition to intensive business expertise and data, a number of of the council members have already got a particular connection to AWA. Hudlin, Straczyinski and Hurwitz have been longtime collaborators and buddies of AWA Chief Creative Officer, Axel Alonso. At Marvel, Hudlin and Alonso partnered on a brand new Black Panther comedian arc that helped elevate the character into mainstream cultural relevance. Hurwitz is a outstanding AWA creator with his unique franchise NewAssume garnering main consideration. In addition to writing new AWA sequence, Straczynski has been the architect of an all-new, comic-fueled shared universe developed with right this moment’s cultural panorama in thoughts. As a part of The Creative Council, his work will enable creators to combine their character creations into The Resistance Universe.
Kosinski has been on the middle of AWA Studios’ first studio challenge: Chariot, an occasion function movie, based mostly on the AWA graphic novel by Bryan Edward Hill that Warner Bros. secured after aggressive bidding with Kosinski to helm, and 21 Laps producing in partnership with AWA. Kosinski additionally created the sci-fi motion thriller function movie Oblivion, based mostly on his unique graphic fiction story. Meanwhile, Madrigal final yr partnered with AWA to convey his unique Latino superhero creation, Primos, to comedian format.
Alonso added, “In only a few years, AWA has established itself as one of the hottest emerging players in the graphic fiction landscape. The reason for this is our ability to find and nurture creative talent and create an opportunity for them to develop their original ideas. This Creative Council provides our creators with another true-changing opportunity to work with a company that has unique insights in both the comic industry and who have generated tremendous success in Hollywood as well.”
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