Comic book writer Garth Ennis has had a pretty good few years. With the adaptation boys On Prime Video and AMC priest, He now feels he’s influential enough to be more involved in how his comics are treated in TV or movies, and he’s testing the waters with a movie based on his and Jason Burrows’ horror comics Time traveled.
Ennis wrote the script for the promising film, which will be financed and produced by independent studio Six, according to The Hollywood Reporter . A search is underway for a director, with expected compensation in the range of $2 million to $3 million. They’re obviously hoping to get the movie out as soon as possible, because if all goes according to plan, the film will go into production sometime this fall. Producer Calcuti said Ennis’s script was “the most faithful adaptation.” For those in need of comparison, Choi describes it as “infect meet The Walking Dead” splash civil war.
cross The show, which first premiered in 2008, centers on survivors of a pandemic that causes people to act out their deepest violent thoughts. Carriers retain basic human intelligence and are known as “crosses” due to the rashes that appear on their faces, and they spread the infection by coating their weapons with liquid. After the original comic wrapped in 2010, it was continued by a rotating cast of creators including Alan Moore, David Lapham, and Si Spurrier.
this cross The movie will be based on Ennis and Burrows’ original 10-issue story, and it’s unclear if there are plans to make it into a larger series, as we’ve seen so far boys. His work seems to work well on television, but it’s a different story entirely on screen. We will learn more about cross Because it’s possible to find a director and put it into production.
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