Variety is reporting that Morgan Freeman is in talks to star in “Red”, the comic adaptation of the Vertigo/DC title from Summit Entertainment that will also star Bruce Willis. Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are writing the script, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing. Gregory Noveck from DC will serve as executive producer. “Red” was written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner, about a former black-ops CIA killer in retirement who finds that he has been marked for death and goes “red”, meaning on the hunt, to defend himself. The three-book series was published in 2003 and 2004 from Wildstorm, an imprint of DC comics.  [ Read More ]

Entertainment Weekly reports that the official Manga graphic novel based on Twilight will soon become available from Yen Press by Korean artist Young Kim. Check out some of the artwork below. Stay tuned to the latest news on the upcoming Twilight movie entitled The Twilight Saga: New Moon based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. “New Moon” stars Robert Pattinson (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Nikki Reed (K-11), Ashley Greene (Skateland), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy), Jackson Rathbone (S. Darko) Dakota Fanning and Kellan Lutz. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Twilight and New Moon. Film Synopsis: After  [ Read More ]

Fredrik Bond has been tapped to direct the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of the hit Devil’s Due Publishing comic “Hack/Slash” for Rogue Pictures. Bond, who is also attached to direct a remake of the hit Korean horror movie “The Host” at Universal and the upcoming “The Hunger” for Warner Bros, has previously worked in TV commercials and music videos. Justin Marks wrote the scipt. Alexandra Milchan, Daniel Alter, and Adrian Askarieh are producing the project, which has been rumored for quite some time. “Hack/Slash” was created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli in 2004, and follows Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels across America to fight and kill “slashers”, horror  [ Read More ]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Holt McCallany (“Fight Club”, the upcoming FX series “Lights Out”), has been cast in the adaptation of the DC/Vertigo Comics title “The Losers” as Wade, the special forces soldier who was once part of the group. “The Losers”, created by Andy Diggle and Jock in 2003, is about a cover-ops team for the CIA betrayed by their handler, a mysterious figure in the intelligence community known as Max, while on a mission. Surviving after they’re cut lose and supposedly killed, they resurface with revenge against the Company and Max in mind, wanting to find out what Max is really up to. Stay tuned to  [ Read More ]

Warner Bros. has set a release date of April 16th, 2010 , for the big-screen debut of “The Losers”, an adaptation of the Vertigo/DC comic book, directed by Sylvain White. Created by Andy Diggle and Jock in 2003, the series follows a CIA black-ops team who are betrayed and left for dead on a mission gone horribly wrong. They return with a vengeance, intent on clearing their names and getting back at the man who set them up, the mysterious Max, a legend in the intelligence community with a sinister plan of his own. The film will star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Jason Patric, Zoe  [ Read More ]

“Synecdoche, New York” producer Anthony Bregman has picked up the option to adapt Alex Robinson’s “Too Cool To Be Forgotten” from Top Shelf Productions. No casting or release date information has been released yet. “Too Cool To Be Forgotten” is the story of a 40-year-old man who undergoes hypnosis therapy to help him stop smoking. However, instead he wakes up in the body of his 15-year-old self and must live through his awkward teenage years, but still possessing the knowledge of his later life and unsure if he should change anything that would affect the life he had and will get to again, in 25 years. Stay tuned to Shockya.com  [ Read More ]

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the new AIT/PlanetLar graphic novel “Hench” and are planning to develop it into a vehicle for Danny McBride, who is set to write the script alongside Shawn Harwell. Neal Moritz of Original Films, alongside Kickstart Productions’ Jason Netter and McBride. Ken Levin and Ori Marmur will executive produce “Hench”. McBride will play the comic’s titular character, a football player who suffers a career-ending injury and needing a job, ends up signing on as a henchman for a successful evil supervillain. The graphic novel was created by Adam Beechen and Mario Bello. Stay tuned for more “Hench” news here at Shockya.com. By Costa Koutsoutis  [ Read More ]

Douglas Cook and David Weisberg have been attached to write a big-screen adaptation of “Nick Ratchet,” a Stan Lee/POW Entertainment project set up at Disney. The lighthearted mystery thriller follows a shy and ineffectual police officer and his rough and tough online avatar/persona named Nick Rachet, and a Jekyll & Hyde-type struggle between the two when Nick Ratchet emerges from inside his video game to take over the life of his creator. Richard LaGravenese is attached to direct, and the concept is from Stan Lee. Larry Jacobson and Sonny Grosso are producing, and Lee is exec producing with Gill Champion from POW. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more news. By  [ Read More ]

Blackfilm.com and Superherohype.com are reporting that Oscar Jaenada (“The Limits of Control”, “Che: Part Two”) has been cast as cowboy-hat wearing sniper Cougar in the upcoming Warner Bros. adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book “The Losers”. He’s joining Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Jason Patric, and Zoe Saldana in the film about a CIA-affiliated black ops team who are betrayed and cut loose, left to die on a mission. They barely survive and plot to get even, hoping to find the reason they were selected to die and take revenge against the enigmatic intelligence persona known as Max. Sylvain White is directing “The Losers”, the original  [ Read More ]

MTV Splashpage is reporting that the big-screen adaptation of “Wake The Dead”, the nu-Frankenstein comic from “30 Days Of Night” creator Steve Niles has been officially put on the back burner despite hopes it could have been available for the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. Splashpage and Niles both confirm that the project which has Jay Russell attached to direct, which was going to go into production this year, is on hold to due WETA Workshops, who was going to be handling the special effects, being unable to do so due to Guilermo Del Toro’s production of “The Hobbit” also starting soon and WETA being unable to handle other projects. There  [ Read More ]

Bruce Willis has been attached to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Homage/Wildstorm graphic novel “Red”, from acclaimed writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hammer. “Red”, published between 2003 and 2004, is about a former CIA wetworks operative targeted for elimination by his superiors when a new CIA director learns of his existence, and he decides to strike back at those he once worked for. Gregory Noveck of DC will be the executive producer on the adaptation as Wildstorm is a subsidiary of DC Comics, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian producing. “Whiteout” writers Erich and Jon Hoeber are behind the screenplay. No release date or other casting  [ Read More ]

John Wells and Don Murphy are producing a big-screen adaptation of the comic book “The Forgotten.” They will be producing it through their respective companies jointly, John Wells Prods. and Angryfilms. “The Forgotten” was co-created by Evan Young and Jareth Grealish, and was first independently published in 2002. The duo published a four-issue series and a collectors edition in 2003. The comic centers on a man with the power to make anyone he can see completely forget about ever having met him. When a friend ends up dead, he uses his ability to discover the truth and bring those responsible to justice. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “The  [ Read More ]

Mania.com and Comics2Film are reporting that Chris Evans (“Push”, “Fantastic Four”) will be joining the cast of the film version of the DC Comics/Vertigo comic “The Losers”. “The Losers”, from Jock and Andy Diggle released by Vertigo from 2003 to 2006, is about an elite group of black-ops commandoes who are betrayed and left for dead by their CIA handlers and the mysterious man known as Max. Surviving the setup, they wage war against their former bosses and fight to clear their own names and find out why they were selected for being dumped. Mania.com’s sources report that Evans is in negotiations for the role of Jensen, the fast-talking blonde  [ Read More ]

Blake Masters, creator of the Showtime series “Brotherhood”, is adapting the Boom! Studios graphic novel “2 Guns” from Steven Grant with art by Mat Santolouco. Marc Platt is producing the crime-themed thriller via Marc Platt Productions, along with Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie of Boom! Studios. “2 Guns,” follows a DEA agent and an undercover naval intelligence officer who end up unwittingly investigating each other and who steal mob money for the good guys. They later on realize that the mob actually got them to swipe $50 million from the CIA for them, and they set out for revenge. The project, as described by The Hollywood Reporter, aims to be  [ Read More ]

Alex Tse (“Watchmen”) will be writing the adaptation of the comic book title “Battling Boy” for Paramount and Plan B, Brad Pitt’s production company. The film will be based on the upcoming graphic novel written and illustrated by Paul Pope (“Batman: Year 100″, “Dark Horse Presents” series), and follows the son of a god who comes down from the top of a mountain at his father’s behest, to battle a plague of beasts that have overrun the giant floating city of Monstropolis. First Second Books is publishing the graphic novel this spring. Tse is also attached to the upcoming live-action “Ninja Scroll” adaptation. Plan B also has the rights to  [ Read More ]