Comic Series North Wind Becoming Film
If you’ve got a comic book set in a dark future, some Hollywood executive is ready to be your huckleberry.
The Hollywood Reporter says Davis Entertainment has acquired film rights to Boom Studios’ SF comic-book series North Wind, and the book’s writer David DiGilio will adapt the five comic series for the big screen.
North Wind takes place in a futuristic Los Angeles in which global warming has created a new ice age. Most survivors live under the ice an under the rule of a a cruel dictator who exiles his enemies to the frozen outdoors. One exile decides they’ve had enough and says they want a revolution - well, you know.
This announcement comes just days after similar news that Tobey Maguire will adapt Red 5 Comics’ Afterburn, which also has a postapocalyptic setting. But in that one the Earth is ravaged by solar radiation.
John Davis will produce the live-action North Wind feature with Boom co-founders Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie via their Boom Entertainment banner. Sci-fi fans know Cosby best as the creator of Sci Fi Channel’s show Eureka. DiGilio will executive-produce. This isn’t Davis Entertainment’s first crack at sci-fi as previous projects include I, Robot; Alien vs. Predator; and Eragon. Well, I sort of liked I, Robot. One out of three ain’t bad - oh wait, it kind of is.
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3 opinions for Comic Series North Wind Becoming Film
john youngblood
Apr 8, 2008 at 2:49 pm
who cares? When or if is eureka coming back
Snips337
Apr 12, 2008 at 8:38 pm
This is not specific 2 your topic, but it is relative 2 this category so I thought I’d ask you:
Who or What is “ION”?
–Godspeed–
Brian Allen
Apr 13, 2008 at 1:20 am
No problem. Ion is basically the “good version” of Parallax. It’s an entity that can apparently choose whoever it wants to host it. It was Kyle for a time and now has chosen Daxamite Sodam Yat.
There’s a lot of talk about this character being a little too powerful. Daxamites have Kryptonian-level super powers, so Sodam w/Ion is like Superman having a Parallax level entity in him. Technically no one should ever be able to beat somebody like that.
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