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Liefield, Goldsman, King, Others Partner To Develop EXTREME UNIVERSE For The Big Screen

Comic book creator Rob Liefeld was once the guy who didn’t want to be that guy – as in the guy who spoke out of turn to Twitter followers and fans on something he wasn’t directly involved in. This was during the course of early development on the Deadpool sequel following up last year’s Winter success making it the highest-earning R-rated comic book movie ever, and it still is that way as that sequel moves forward under a new director. With this, it appears Liefeld’s other work now makes him the proud center of the latest news breaking via several trade sources on Tuesday. The IP in question regards the Extreme Universe – a catalog of nine comic books with over 100 characters now on par for big screen treatment in a seven-figure deal that places Liefeld with producer Graham King, partnering company Fundemental Films, Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road […]

Evan Daugherty To Pen TOMB RAIDER Reboot For Warner Bros.

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been close to fourteen years since Paramount Pictures introduced the filmgoing world to a live-action iteration of Lara Croft a la actress Angelina Jolie based on Square Enix’s popular Tomb Raider game franchise. The film did well for itself while its sequel didn’t perform equally at the box-office and that’s so far been the history of the franchise until 2011 when GK Films’s own, producer Graham King acquired the rights with MGM announcing their partneship for a theatrical reboot. This week, the film is reportedly on the fast track according to Deadline so we could be hearing some pretty cool casting news soon enough. In the meantime, Snow White And The Huntsman, Divergent and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scribe Evan Daugherty has been tapped to pen the script. Acclaimed writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) completed their own version of a Tomb Raider film several years […]