Variety has announced that the newly-formed Vigilante Entertainment will be developing Warren Ellis’ Black Summer.
The book, published by Avatar Press, chronicles the struggle of the Seven Guns, a team of scientists who transformed their bodies into weapons to battle back the police.
Vigilante, meanwhile, is a new group founded by Hichram Benkirane, formerly of the French comics publisher Les Humanoides Associes. Benkirane still holds control of the properties he created at Humanoides, including Fragile, Miss: Better Living Through Crime, and The Book of Jack.
According to Variety, Knowing’s Ryne Pearson is slated to write the adaptation. This is yet another bit of good news for Ellis, as his series Red was recently optioned, and is slated to have Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis attached.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
It was only a matter of time before this one was optioned. It’s got screen adaptation written all over it. Hope they keep the exotic science and bitchy dialouge in place.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
It looks like Benkirane’s first name is spelled Hicham, not Hichram.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Bleeding Cool has an interesting take when we first reported this story - no mention of the presidential assassination in the shoutsheets for this.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Helen Mirren was, also, added to the RED cast and production is slated to start in January, per Cully’s Facebook updates.
Warren Ellis sure seems to be a white hot Hollywood property these days.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
Black Summer is the superhero as eliminationist libertarian fetish porn. Of course, the ending states unequivically “Killing is WRONG!” But you gotta wonder about those romantic shots of cops and soldiers being slaughtered, over and over again, and the only non-superhero person portrayed as a good man is a pragmatic Army general.
Ellis is about nothing more than having a boot on the neck, isn’t he?