Kickstarted Superhero Comic, BLACK, Opted For Feature Film Treatment
Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 is reportedly advancing efforts to bring Black Mask Studios comic book property, Black, to the big screen. Studio 8’s own EVP, Creative, Jon Silk and fellow executive Rishi Rajani are reportedly overseeing the development of the film inspired by the six-issue series. Described as a cross between X-Men and The Wire, Black is set in a world where Kareem Jenkins, a young man who survives a hail of bullets, discovers he’s part of a larger, oppressive conspiracy in a world where only Black people have superpowers. Deadline‘s exclusive on Thursday briefly highlights the comic by way of its protagonist and millieu. “The day I got shot changed my life,” Jenkins says in the latest issue with its references to the Black Live Matters movement, the “unjustly incarcerated” and explosive racial tensions. “Not because I got up, but because of all the people who can’t,” the character […]