For this project, Treyarch hired the creators of the comic, Brian Michael Bendis (screenplay) and Mark Bagley (character design).
Ultimate Spider-Man doesn't bare the Marvel's comic-book title for nothing. But this doesn't save it from being a fine example of misplaced talent. I mean that unlike the other iterations of Spiderman, this one can be actually played. Ultimate Spider-Man, unlike its brethren, manages to escape this dark legacy. Sometimes it’s tough being a rated-R guy in a rated-G media space, but Disco Destroyer gives me that chance to indulge in subject matter that’s a little closer to my own twisted sensibilities.Until now, any game marked by the spider logo was a curse to anyone attempting to give it some credit (I am talking about the PC versions). “The ironic thing is that Ben 10 is the show that was a real departure from what I do.
“ Disco Destroyer combines ’70s muscle-car culture with the battle for humanity’s salvation,” Casey tells THR.
Lastly, MTV’s cross-media group MTVX has put into production Disco Destroyer, an original series of animated shorts created for its relaunched Liquid Television brand.Ĭasey, producer Scott Mosier ( Zack and Miri Make a Porno) and artist Jim Mahfood will create the shorts, which will debut on MTV.com, and potentially across MTV’s various on-air networks. “The story deals with themes of loss and redemption and does a very cool trick with what I call superpowers even though it is in no way a spandex show.” “ Kafka is a thriller, an espionage piece, a romance and a noir, and each of those aspects is being dovetailed into a paranoid world of government agents gone rogue,” Seagle tells THR. In addition, Seagle’s original graphic novel Kafka - centering on a government-enhanced agent on the run - is being developed for television with the Kenneth Branagh Co. STORY: Joe Kelly Previews DC/Warner Home Video’s ‘Superman vs.
“The ‘superhero franchise’ is amply addressed by the likes of Marvel and DC so other types of stories originating in comics are finding their place in the market as well and The Great Unknown was one of them.” “It’s a quirky book, a ‘low-fi sci-fi,” Rouleau tells The Hollywood Reporter. Seagle, was founded in 2000 in an effort to push the graphic novelists beyond their comic book backgrounds, which includes such titles as I Kill Giants, Superman, X-Men, Wildcats and American Virgin.īeyond the animated efforts, Rouleau’s Image Comics title The Great Unknown, about a slacker’s attempt to find the people responsible for raiding his thoughts, is being developed as a feature film with Mark Gordon Co. Man of Action, composed of friends Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly and Steven T. Man of Action Studios, producer of the Cartoon Network hit Ben 10 and Marvel/Disney XD’s upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man, is expanding its reach with three new projects in the film, television and digital space.
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