{"id":16723,"date":"2009-07-21T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=16723"},"modified":"2009-07-20T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:18:00","slug":"morgan-freeman-joins-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2009\/07\/21\/morgan-freeman-joins-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Joins Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety is reporting that Morgan Freeman is in talks to star in &#8220;Red&#8221;, the comic adaptation of the Vertigo\/DC title from Summit Entertainment that will also star Bruce Willis.  <\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Red&#8221; 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 &#8220;red&#8221;, meaning on the hunt, to defend himself. The three-book series was published in 2003 and 2004 from Wildstorm, an imprint of DC comics.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more &#8220;Red&#8221; news.<\/p>\n<p>By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16731\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/red_comic_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Red Comic Book Cover\" title=\"Red Comic Book Cover\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/red_comic_book_cover.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/red_comic_book_cover-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Comic Book Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety is reporting that Morgan Freeman is in talks to star in &#8220;Red&#8221;, the comic adaptation of the Vertigo\/DC title from Summit Entertainment that will also star Bruce Willis. 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