The Hollywood Reporter has news that Tobey Maguire and Neal Moritz will adapt Afterburn, newcomer Red 5 Comics‘ post-apocalyptic adventure.
The four-issue miniseries, which debuted in January, centers on a group of treasure hunters who face mutants and pirates on an Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare. Afterburn is written by Red 5 founders Paul Ens and Scott Chitwood, and illustrated by Wayne Nichols.
Maguire is also developing the live-action Robotech. He’ll produce Afterburn through his Maguire Entertainment and Moritz (I Am Legend) through his Original Films.
Never heard of Afterburn….
But, I never knew that they were making a Robotech Movie! Now, that’s some great news!
Comment by Zayne — March 27, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Congratulations to the guys at Red 5! This is great news for them! Glad to hear it.
Now I want an Atomic Robo movie! Now!
Comment by Vaneta Rogers — March 27, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
AFTERBURN I can find as a TPB. ROBOTECH, however, is doable. Another classic anime done as a live-action film. Hope the cast is tight. For now, I hope the Wachoskis made the live version of SPEED RACER tight, along with the proposed version of AKIRA.
Comment by Sanford Williams — March 27, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
Isn’t this Garth Ennis’ “Just A Pilgrim” again? Make THAT into a movie.
Comment by jake watt — March 27, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
The first issue came out in January and then issue 2 just came out last week. I guess this is 4 issue bi-monthly comic. Seems like a long time to for 4 issues. How do you expect people to remember between issues? And I don’t know how they can take this huge concept of a story and tell it in 4 issues. But I’m sure in the same context of 30 Days of Night, they’ll be many more stories to be told.
I haven’t read any of the issues yet and will just wait for the TPB. The concept is interesting enough that’s it’s grabed my interest. I’m surprised there was never any mention of this title on Newsarama here. Unless I missed it?
Comment by Aaron — March 27, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
All the Red 5 comics are excellent. if you are not reading them, you are missing out on some great stuff!
Comment by Chris — March 28, 2008 @ 11:09 am