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Christine Boylan To Direct PAINKILLER JANE For Lotus

Just a few months shy of a year since the attachment of actress Jessica Chastain, the upcoming comic book adaptation of Painkiller Jane has reportedly finalized a director in Christine Boylan. The project hails from Lotus Entertainment with Chastain producing along with Lotus’s Lenny Beckerman, Solipsist Films’ Stephen L’Heureux and 375 Pictures’ Kelly Carmichael. The film is inspired by the gritty, edgy and sensational work of Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada from their 1996 Paperfilms publication with the title character, Jane Vasko, a tough NYC cop recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a major NYC drug and human trafficking ring. The operation is a bust, landing her near-death and comatose until she awakens one morning with extraordinary abilities that give her an indestructible advantage as she seeks vengenace against those who nearly ended her life. Other iterations of the comic followed including Syfy’s live-action TV movie in 2005 and series run […]

YA Novel Film Adaptation, SUPERMAN VS. THE KKK, Is In Development

Lee B. Golden III

If there were ever a time for superheroes to strike a blow for racial equality on the big screen, I think now is as good a time as any and with word of a new book adaptation now the works from Lotus Entertainment and PaperChase Films. This latest update regards the 2012 YA novel, “Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate”, from author Rick Bowers, from which Katherine Lindberg will adapt the screenplay for Lotus and PaperChase, and financier and executive producer Marco Vicini. The film in question, Superman Vs. The KKK, will take its cues from the renowned DC property’s heyday as a radio show starting in 1940, wherein the film will reportedly focus its plot set in 1946 with a former Klansman who goes undercover and works with the Anti-Defamation League and the producer of the […]