Stunt veteran and second unit director-turned filmmaker Chad Stahelski has his plate full going into 2018. With John Wick: Chapter Three currently in pre-production and a reboot of sword-swinging immortal saga, Highlander, still cooking under the pen, Stahelski is reportedly attached to another project as of this week with word from The Hollywood Reporter on Ed Brubaker’s Sean Phillips-inked 2017 Image Comics publication, Kill Or Be Killed.
The project tells of a depressed college student who attempts suicide. He survives due to unlikely events but is soon visited by a demon who explains that he was the one who spared the student’s life. But there’s a price to be paid: Going forward, the young man will be allowed to live one month for every person he kills.
Stahelski is reteaming with John Wick franchise producer Basil Iwanyk who will produce Kill Or Be Killed with Erica Lee at Thunder Road along with mother! producer Jeff Waxman from a script by Kin scribe Dan Casey. Brubaker, best known for manifesting The Winter Soldier for the “Captain America” comic series inspiring its current screen iteration for the MCU, will executive produce.
