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Davis Entertainment Adapting 'North Wind'
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The best thing about the ongoing rush for new comic book projects is that studios are looking to the indie companies for books. It's intriguing. I can't decide if it's proof they're actually reading them, or if they're just finding them on the desk of some intern.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest to be snapped up is North Wind, a five issue series from Boom! Studios. Davis Entertainment will co produce alongside Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie, owners of Boom! and its film shingle, Boom Entertainment. The series' writer David DiGilio will adapt it for the big screen. Cosby and Richie are rolling in Hollywood deals lately -- this is the fifth Boom! property to be sold and put into production.
North Wind is set in a bleak future where Earth is experiencing a second Ice Age due to nuclear fallout and global warming. Humanity has carved an existence out of the snow and ice, living in bunkers and in the buried buildings of former Los Angeles. L.A. is being ruled by a cruel dictator, who drives some to live as outcasts in the wilderness.
An Adventure Terrorist Genre?
Filed under: Action », Drama », Thrillers », Deals », Scripts », 20th Century Fox »
Davis Entertainment, a 20th Century Fox-based
production company, has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a spec script from Stephen Hauser (you'll be forgiven for not recognizing the name - his
only previous screenwriting credit is for, erm, Sphere) entitled The Mistaken. According to The
Hollywood Reporter, the film will revolve around "an American man who becomes a terrorism suspect while
traveling with his family." Instead of being a political thriller, though, it's going to be an action flick,
"in the vein of The
Fugitive and The
Bourne Identity." Uh, what? Clearly I'm a moron here, but I really can't figure this out: a guy who's thought to be a terrorist goes on the run and...does a lot of stuff that makes him seem like a terrorist, only to prove that he's not? I just don't understand how this is going to work in our current political climate. I guess if he's mistaken for a terrorist by, say, Osama Bin Laden, I can see audiences (and Hollywood) getting behind the character raising all sorts of hell to prove that he's not what they think he is, but since the movie is set IN THE US, I'm completely befuddled. Anyone got any ideas about how this is going to work? If you don't, we'll find out fairly soon, because the movie is reportedly being fast-tracked into production.
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