Earlier Saturday morning, I posted a status on Facebook about how I would love to see an original female character come to life in the form of Riddick. Well, considering that the following news doesn’t necessarily deal with an original property, it comes pretty close I guess.
Several reports this weekend have been coming through the web indicating that Rob Cohen (The Fast And The Furious, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) is bringing 1990’s comic book anti-heroine, Razor, to the big screen. The film is based on the work author and illustrator Everett Hartsoe, who created the character in 1991 upon launching London Night Studios, back in 1992. The news also comes off the heels of a successful kickstarter Hartsoe hosted back in in May to help reboot the character with Jeff Most Productions.
The character will be given an updated look as the story will mainly center around the death of Nicole Mitchell, a young woman whose resurrection as ‘Razor’, grants her the opportunity to utilize her martial arts prowess and her surgically bladed arms to go after the people who killed her detective father and abducted her sister. The story takes several twists and turns through several editions and crossing over into other comic book franchises, most notably, James O’Barr’s classic graphic novel, The Crow, which there is also a theatrical reinterpreation in the works starring actor Luke Evans and director F. Javier Gutiérrez.
Jeff Most, whose production company is bringing Gutiérrez’s film as it did director Alex Proyas’s 1994 film of the same name, is also tied to Razor as producer. It was previously reported in 2009 that Most approached the project with Archlight Films, initially aiming for a $15 million dollar budget and a 2010 filming start date in Australia.
Further details are pending regarding the plot, but it is believed that like all of the films Cohen directed after the 1980 film, A Small Circle Of Friends, and because of much of the current comic book movie climate, he will likely aim for anything other than an R-rating. However, this could change at any given point, so we will eventually see what follows in the months ahead as development continues.
Stay tuned for more info.
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