June 30, 2019 After years of waiting from fans, a live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is officially coming to fruition. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has signed “a massive financial deal” with Warner Bros. Television to adapt Sandman into a television show. While it’s unclear exactly what the…

June 15, 2019 Skybound Entertainment and Universal Pictures announced this morning that the sci-fi drama Oblivion Song—based upon the New York Times bestselling Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) and artist Lorenzo De Felici’s bestselling comic book series of the same name—is being developed for film. Universal’s Executive Vice President…

June 12, 2019 Sony Pictures Animation has optioned Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose’s horror anthology comic book Hungry Ghosts for an animated TV series, as announced at the Annecy Animation Conference in Annecy, France (via Variety). The series was announced by Sony Pictures Animation Vice Presidents Katie Baron and Kevin Noel,…

May 17, 2019 Are you familiar with Atlas Comics? If not, it was a comic book publisher that launched in the 1950s and it ended up evolving into Marvel Comics. However, when Marvel launched out of Altas to become its own brand, not all of the comic book properties followed.…

May 16, 2019 Netflix broke media ground last year by releasing the graphic novel series The Magic Order from veteran Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service), becoming the first streaming service to do so. After seeing its first issue become the highest-selling new comic book in 20 years, Netflix is developing…

March 27, 2019 Armory Films’ Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros (Arctic, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Mudbound) have teamed with Don Handfield (The Founder, Kill the Messenger) and his production company, Motor, on The Dark Age, a new comic book penned by Handfield. With plans to adapt into a television series,…

March 27, 2019 Bitter Root has been optioned as a live-action feature film by Legendary Pictures, according to Deadline. The comic book’s co-creators David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown will reportedly be among the executive producers. “[With Bitter Root, we’re] mixing action and horror, with a cast of…

March, 10, 2019 Deadline is reporting that Amazon Studios is teaming with Skybound Entertainment for a TV adaptation of the sci-fi comic book series Port of Earth from Top Cow Productions and Image Comics. Created by Zack Kaplan with art from Andrea Mutti (Batman Eternal), Port of Earth is a…

March 6, 2019 EXCLUSIVE: Famed comic book creator and New York Times bestselling author Brian K. Vaughan has signed on to write the screenplay for Gundam, the first live-action film based on the popular mecha anime and science fiction media franchise created by Sunrise. The project hails from Legendary Entertainment,…

February 7, 2019 Indie comics legend Terry Moore is writing a pilot script based on his creator-owned comic book series Motor Girl, the writer/artist revealed on Twitter today. The series, which centers on a veteran who is struggling with PTSD while operating a car repair garage frequented by aliens, is…

January 23, 2019 Sandra Bullock has booked her next Netflix feature – for now just as a producer, though that could very well change. The Oscar-winning actress, who is coming off the phenomenal, dangerous-meme-spawning success of Bird Box, is set to be involved in – of all things – a…

November 16, 2018 Scout Comics & Entertainment is excited to announce that Peter Ricq’s ONCE OUR LAND has been optioned by Amber Ripley of Goodbye Productions (ENTANGLEMENT) to develop as an animated feature film. Ricq will adapt with Phil Ivanusic-Vallee. Set in 1830s Germany, Once Our Land is a post-apocalyptic…

November 19, 2018 There’s suddenly a rush to adapt comicbook properties created by Jeff Lemire. With his Black Hammer series part of a deal with Legendary Entertainment, another of his titles, Sweet Tooth is headed to US streaming service Hulu, produced by Robert Downey Jr.’s company. Hap And Leonard creator…

November 13, 2018 Black Hammer Comic Book Optioned

November 7, 2018 Grant Morrison is extending his relationship with Universal Cable Productions. The comic book and TV writer and executive producer has signed an overall deal with the studio behind Syfy’s Happy and Brave New World. Under the deal, Morrison will team with the cable-focused studio to develop and…

November 6, 2018 A television series based on the DC/Vertigo series Survivors’ Club is in development for the CW, according to Deadline. Sweet/Vicious writer Jared Frieder is reportedly spearheading the project under Warner Bros. Television, working from the original comic series by writers Lauren Beukes and Dale Halverson, along with…

October 9, 2018 Richard Wenk, writer of Sony’s Kraven the Hunter movie, has revealed he’s currently working on the script – and that the film could even feature Spider-Man. It seems Sony intends to draw upon the famous Kraven’s Last Hunt comic book arc. Venom was something of a gamble for Sony Pictures; could their Spider-Man spinoffs…

October 8, 2018 The Dark Avengers and Norman Osborn may be assembling as part of the Marvel Studios Phase 4 plans following The Avengers 4. It’s currently rumored that Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios had a Dark Avengers script written, but it’s not known if or how along the project…

October 2, 2018 Jenny Klein, a writer/producer who has worked on Jessica Jones and Supernatural, is developing the critically-acclaimed comic Long Lost for television, publisher Scout Comics announced in a press release Tuesday. Long Lost is a haunting story of two estranged sisters who reunite and return to their rural…

October 2, 2018 Scout Comics series “The Mall” has been optioned for television by filmmaker Ivan Reitman’s production company Montecito Pictures, according to a press release sent out by the publisher today. The comic, written by Don Handfield (co-creator of the History Channel’s Knightfall) and James Haick III (“Solar Flare“),…

October 1, 2018 Following the success of breakout comedy Happy!, Universal Cable Prods. is adapting another Image Comics property into a TV series. UCP is developing Image Comics’ comic book series Ice Cream Man, which debuted in January. Max and Adam Reid (Sneaky Pete) will write the adaptation. The duo…

September 12, 2018 Fan’s of ‘Summoner’s War’ have something incredible to look forward to as it has been revealed that Robert Kirkman of ‘The Walking Dead’ fame is planning on adapting the video game into multiple outlets through his Skybound Entertainment banner. The news comes while fans are still catching…

July 30, 2018 Comic book writer Zack Kaplan is having himself quite the month. Earlier this month his book at AfterShock Comics, The Lost City of Explores, was picked up by Universal Television to develop a television series. Today Deadline is reporting that another one of his comic book titles…

July 21, 2018 An animated adaptation of the Sly Cooper brand is coming in October 2019 with 52 episodes planned for the show’s first season. It was announced last year that Technicolor Animation Productions would be partnering with Sony Interactive Entertainment to create a CG animation of Sly Cooper with…

July 21, 2018 One of the biggest pieces of news to come out of San Diego Comic-Con has been the official announcement of a live-action Stargirl television series set to be an exclusive for the DC Universe streaming service. The new show based on the high-flying adventures of young legacy…

July 18, 2018 Less than a month after its debut, and Zack Kaplan and Alvaro Sarraseca’s The Lost City Explorers already has been optioned for television. The AfterShock comics series has been officially picked up by Universal Television to produce the title. Kaplan is attached to the adaptation of the…

July 17, 2018 Last summer, it was announced that streaming giant Netflix had purchased Mark Millar’s comic book company Millarworld, with plans to adapt the writer’s comic books into various TV shows and feature-length films. Today, Netflix announced the five series and movies it’s got in active development and the slate sounds…

July 11, 2018 Prophet could be the next creation of Rob Liefeld to get a movie. With Liefeld’s Marvel Comics creation Deadpool having inspired the titular 2016 global box office smash, which globally grossed $783 million, along with this past May’s (currently) $727 million-grossing sequel, the idea of Hollywood delving…

July 3, 2018 Skyward comic lands at Sony with director Brad Peyton Variety is reporting that Sony has gained the rights to a new comic book property, Skyward and has already tapped filmmaker Brad Peyton to direct. Creator Joe Henderson, also the current Lucifer showrunner, will both write the adaptation and executive produce…

June 29, 2018 Writer Marguerite Bennet and artists Rafael de Latorre’s AfterShock comic book Animosity has been optioned for film by Legendary Entertainment. Animosity tells the story of a world where animals become sentient and gain the ability to speak. Here’s the official log line: “In ANIMOSITY, one day the…

June 28, 2018 Sony Pictures has decided to move forward with plans to adapt Valiant Comics’ Faith for the big screen. The studio has enlisted American Gods writer Maria Melnik to pen the screenplay for the adaptation. Melnik is credited with writing eight episodes for Starz’s television adaptation of the…

June 25, 2018 Rebel Wilson has optioned the rights to Crowded, an upcoming Image Comics book, with the goal of starring in and producing the movie adaptation. Wilson will develop the project and produce it via her Camp Sugar production banner. Also producing is Oni Entertainment. Crowded, written by Christopher…

June 22, 2018 Sony and producer Amy Pascal are in early development on a movie adaptation of the Marvel comic Silk, about Korean-American superheroine Cindy Moon, which was created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. In the comics, Cindy is a student in Peter Parker’s class who also is bitten by a…

June 19, 2018 With his first project at Amazon Studios, Robert Kirkman is set to adapt his second most popular comic, Invincible. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon has given a straight-to-series order to an animated Invincible series, based on the Kirkman and Corey Walkers’s comic series of the same…

May 30, 2018 Dave Bautista has signed on to star in and produce a film adaptation of Jason Pearson’s Body Bags – under the new title of Dogtown, according to Deadline. Bautista will play Mack “Clownface” Delgado, a professional bounty hunter who discovers he has a teenage daughter – and…

May 22, 2018 Lionsgate has picked up the rights to adapt Image Comics’ cyberpunk dystopian comic series “Analog,” with “John Wick” filmmaker Chad Stahelski attached to direct from a screenplay by Ryan Condal, creator of the USA Network series, “Colony.” “Analog” takes place in the near future, after all internet…

May 12, 2018 TriStar Pictures has picked up the rights to Infidel, a horror comic from former DC/Vertigo editor Pornsak Pichetshote and artist Aaron Campbell. Michael Sugar, who won an Oscar for producing Spotlight and is an exec producer on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, will produce the adaptation with Ashley Zalta via…

May 3, 2018 The “Swamp Thing” is coming. DC Entertainment has announced plans to adapt the popular comic series — about a swamp-dwelling creature that is part man and part plant, and which roams the marshes of south Louisiana — as a potential live-action TV series, according to The Hollywood…

April 30, 2018 Netflix is activating its Failsafe. Michael B. Jordan is teaming up with Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole to produce Failsafe, an adaptation of the Vault Comics title of the same name. According to a report by Deadline, Jordan is co-producing the adaptation with an eye to…

April 26, 2018 EXCLUSIVE: Constantin Film and Prime Universe have teamed to turn the Vault Comic title Heathen into a film with a kickass female Viking warrior protagonist. Script will be written by Kerry Williamson, whose credits include Alex Cross, Netflix’s What Happened to Monday and who’s adapting the fantasy…

April 19, 2018 Transhuman and East of West have been optioned by Amazon as live-action television series, according to Deadline. Based on the comic book titles written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by J.M. Ringuet and Nick Dragotta respectively, the two adaptations are produced by Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment as…

April 11, 2018 Universal Cable Productions is looking to adapt Warren Ellis’ latest comic series to the small screen. The studio has optioned Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire’s comic series INJECTION for TV. The comic was first published in 2015 and revolves around a group of highly specialized individuals…

March 5, 2018 Hiding in Time may not immediately spring to mind when it comes to things from the archives of Image Comics that should be adapted in live-action form. However, MGM Television has enough interest, and it just optioned the rights to the seemingly forgotten comic book miniseries, with…

February 20, 2018 It looks like Disney Channel is getting in on some more Marvel fun. According to a brand-new report, the network is working on an animated series focused on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur with one all-star crew. Deadline is reporting that Disney Channels Worldwide is developing the…

February 6, 2018 Gaumont has optioned the iconic samurai rabbit comic-book series Usagi Yojimbo from creator, writer and illustrator Stan Sakai, for development into an animated TV series. The project will be co-produced by Gaumont, Sakai, James Wan’s Atomic Monster with Rob Hackett overseeing for the company, and Dark Horse…

January 29, 2018 The comic book fantasy series Birthright, produced by Image Comics, is being adapted for the big screen. Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the writers of the Despicable Me movies, are set to join forces with Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead) and Kirkman’s own Skybound Entertainment…

January 16, 2018 Scout Comics and Entertainment is proud to announce that its critically-acclaimed crime/thriller series SMOKETOWN by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (AQUAMAN, POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL) and artist Scott Van Domelen is now in development with writer/director Vaughn Stein. Vaughn’s most recent film, TERMINAL, starring Margot Robbie, Simon…

December 14, 2017 Kill or be Killed Comic Book Optioned While John Wick director Chad Stahelski is already booked to return for the 2019-scheduled John Wick: Chapter 3 and has burgeoning prospects for a movie reboot of Highlander, it appears that a most intriguing comic book movie project in Kill…

December 1, 2017 Goldie Vance Comic Book Optioned 20th Century Fox has bought the rights to the BOOM! Studios graphic novel Goldie Vance with Kerry Washington and Rashida Jones teaming up to bring Hope Larson and Brittney Williams’ comic to the screen. Described as a mix between Nancy Drew and Eloise, the book follows…

November 21, 2017 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Comic Book Optioned Sabrina is on the move. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series, originally put in development at the CW in September as a potential companion to Riverdale, has landed a 20-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order at Netflix. The now-untitled project, based on…

November 16, 2017 Danger Girl Comic Book Optioned Constantin Film acquired rights to the comic book series Danger Girl, and will team with Jeremy Bolt’s Bolt Pictures and Adrian Askarieh’s Prime Universe Films to produce a film and develop a TV show from the property. Constantin’s Robert Kulzer will produce…

November 13, 2017 Morbius Comic Book Optioned Sony is looking to expand its Spider-Man shared universe with a film centered on Morbius, the Living Vampire. Power Rangers writers Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama developed the script, which was submitted to Sony “after a secret development process.” Created by writer Roy Thomas and…

November 6, 2017 Darkness Visible Comic Book Optioned The Darkness Visible comic book series by Mike Carey and Arvind Ethan David is getting the TV series treatment from IDW Entertainment. According to a report from Deadline, IDW will be developing, financing and producing the series. David will serve as executive producer under the Ideate…

October 31, 2017 Snow Blind Comic Book Optioned Fox has began work developing the BOOM! Studios miniseries Snow Blind by Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins as an hour-long drama, reports Deadline. Fox, which co-owns BOOM! Studios, has agreed to a “script commitment plus penalty” for the show under the development…

October 27, 2017 Nonplayer Comic Book Optioned You might not be familiar with Nonplayer right now, but if Legendary does it right, then everybody might know the name “Dana Stevens” in the future. According to Deadline, Legendary has acquired the movie rights to the beautifully drawn comic book series by…

October 4, 2017 Velvet Comic Book Optioned Image Comics spy series Velvet is set to become the very first original scripted drama created for the Paramount Network. Kyle Killen (Awake, Lone Star) will adapt the series, which comes from the creative team of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting,…

September 28, 2017 Lazarus Comic Book Optioned Amazon has set up three high-profile drama series for development: Ringworld, based on Larry Niven’s classic science fiction book; Lazarus, based on the comic book by Greg Rucka (Jessica Jones); and Snow Crash, based on Neal Stephenson’s cult novel. The streaming platform has been ramping up its…

September 23, 2017 Kill the Minotaur Comic Book Optioned A fresh Image Comics series is getting the silver screen treatment. The Hollywood Reporter announces that Skybound Entertainment, the company operated by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, has joined forced with Universal Pictures to adapt Kill the Minotaur, which just…

September 13, 2017 Strangers in Paradise Comic Book Optioned Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise has been optioned for a big-screen adaptation, with filmmaker Angela Robinson at the helm. The long-running comic, which will return for a short engagement in 2018 to celebrate its 25th anniversary, centers on three characters: Katchoo,…

August 28, 2017 Heartthrob Comic Book Optioned Oni Press has announced that Heartthrob by Christopher Sebela, Robert Wilson IV, and Nick Filardi has been optioned by Studio 8 for a potential television series. Heartthrob is the critically acclaimed comic book that mixes romance and heists in a story about second…

August 3, 2017 Black Comic Book Optioned EXCLUSIVE: HBO and Amazon are developing their respective controversial alt-history series Confederate and Black America for the small screen, but Studio 8 is aiming bigger with Black. With its premise of a nation where only African-Americans possess superpowers, the comic series from Black Mask Studios…

July 22, 2017 Princeless Comic Book Optioned Sony Pictures has optioned movie rights to the Action Lab Comics series Princeless. Created by Jeremy Whitley and Emily Martin, the series follows a young black princess who, instead of waiting for a prince to save her, takes matters into her own hands.…

July 17, 2017 Mind MGMT Comic Book Optioned Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions are sticking together. The comic book company has renewed its first-look deal with the studio on the heels of Umbrella Academy‘s recent series order at Netflix. Under the re-upped pact, the two will continue to develop…

July 10, 2017 Spencer and Locke Comic Book Optioned Debuting this past April from Action Lab Entertainment, David Pepose and Jorge Santiago Jr.’s Spencer & Locke made immediate waves in the comic book industry. So much, in fact, that Hitman producer Adrian Askarieh has already optioned the movie rights to the series. “I…

June 27, 2017 Superman Red Son Comic Book Optioned It started with an exchange between Mark Millar and Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts which saw the latter reveal that Warner Bros. had turned down his pitch for a Superman: Red Son movie but Den of Geek claims to have…

June 14, 2017 Duke Nukem and Borderlands Comic Books Optioned Gearbox Software has provided an update on the Borderlands movie while also revealing plans to make a Duke Nukem adaptation. Comic book movies are currently enjoying a renaissance, and next up might be video game movies. It’s no secret that…

May 17, 2017 The Witcher Comic Book Optioned Netflix is developing and producing an English-language TV show based on The Witcher. The franchise started life as a series of fantasy novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, before being turned into a number of critically acclaimed video games. Now it’s coming…

May 15, 2017 Wayward Comic Book Optioned Jim Zub and Steven Cummings’ Wayward ongoing comic series from Image has been optioned for television by Manga Entertainment, the UK-based co-producer and distributor of several anime franchises such as Ghost in the Shell and Street Fighter Alpha. The blurb here says the series…

April 4, 2017 The Old Guard Comic Book Optioned THR is reporting that Skydance Productions has picked up the rights to Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez’s new Image Comics series The Old Guard, tapping Rucka to pen a script for the movie adaptation. The Old Guard follows “a small group…

April 4, 2017 Invincible Comic Book Optioned Comic fans Rogen and Goldberg will write, direct and produce a movie adaptation, with the ‘Walking Dead’ creator also producing. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are teaming up with Robert Kirkman to bring the Walking Dead creator’s comic book Invincible to the big…

March 31, 2017 Archer & Armstrong Comic Book Optioned ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ writer Terry Rossio is also on board for the adaptation of the comic book. Valiant Entertainment, the independent comic publisher behind Harbinger, Bloodshot and X-O Manowar, is continuing its move into movie production. Heat Vision has learned that the…

March 30, 2017 Batgirl Comic Book Optioned Batgirl is flying solo. The superheroine is getting her own standalone movie from filmmaker Joss Whedon. Whedon is nearing a deal to write, direct, and produce an untitled Batgirl pic for Warner Bros. as part of its DC Extended Universe. No other producers are…

March 22, 2017 The Pro Comic Book Optioned Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights to Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti’s 2002 graphic novel “The Pro”. The story involves a prostitute who wakes up one day with superhero powers and is asked to join the League of…

February 23, 2017 Nightwing Comic Book Optioned Warner Bros. is developing a Nightwing standalone film with LEGO Batman director Chris McKay. The announcement comes shortly after revealing War of the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves will be helming The Batman. McKay is in negotiations to direct the standalone…

January 20, 2017  Witchblade Comic Book Optioned Now that Rob Liefeld’s entire catalog has been optioned, networks are scrambling for the next ’90s property and NBC has settled on Witchblade, by Marc Silvestri, a series which ran from 1995-2015 for 185 issues. The show will be executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn (CSI) and…

January 3, 2017 Extreme Universe Comic Book Optioned About a year ago, a little R-rated comic book movie by the name of Deadpool surprised audiences and critics everywhere with one of the year’s biggest box office performances. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more pleased with the film’s success–and that of…