This probably will surprise no one, but Variety reports that Guy Ritchie will direct a film for Warner Bros. based on his Virgin Comics series The Gamekeeper.
This will be the first Virgin Comics property to be developed as a movie. The Gamekeeper is part of the publisher’s Director’s Cut line, which includes works by Nicolas Cage, John Woo and Terry Gilliam.
Joel Silver will produce the film, with Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra of Virgin Comics executive producing.
The Gamekeeper, which was conceived by Ritchie and written by Andy Diggle (The Losers, Hellblazer), is a thriller about the caretaker of a Scottish estate who, in Diggle’s words, becomes “the ultimate killer.”
July 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am
I’ll be looking forward to this. I’m a big fan of Guy Ritchie (though I didn’t bother to see the obligatory “I married Madonna and she’ll divorce me if I don’t do a movie with her” film), so this has been a must read and the movie will be a must see.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
This will be the first Virgin Comics property to be developed as a movie.
Virgin’s “Sadhu” is also already being developed as a movie, starring Nicholas Cage, so Gamekeeper isn’t the first.