June 13, 2014 After working on such films as the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, Heavy Metal and Weta Workshop’s Pukeko Pictures plan to adapt Image Comics’ “Rat Queens” into an animated TV series. The dark comedy, described as a sass-and-sorcery series, revolves around beer-guzzling maidens —…
January 30, 2014 Jesse Peyronel, the filmmaker behind the indie movie Siren, is teaming up with The Walking Dead producers Circle of Confusion to adapt the Image Comics book Sheltered. The comic is a preapocalyptic thriller set in a survivalist compound somewhere in the Pacific Northwest and populated by families…
December 13, 2013 Century Fox is in negotiations for the movie rights to Mark Millar’s upcoming Image Comics miniseries, Starlight. Millar has described the space fantasy story as either Flash Gordon meets the Dark Knight or, more awesomely, Buzz Lightyear meets Unforgiven. “The comic, drawn by Goran Parlov and due…
