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THE VILLAINESS: Skybound, Contents Panda Join Forces For TV Series Adaptation

Here’s to the entertainment industry giving us all more ample reason to stay home and watch TV! Deadline‘s Peter White is reporting exclusively that stunt coordinator and filmmaker Jung Byung-gil will be on par to direct a pilot episode for a TV series adaptation of 2017 Cannes favorite, The Villainess. Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead) is shepherding the series in a deal with Next Entertainment World’s Contents Panda with the search now underway for a series writer. The Villainess follows Anes, who was kidnapped from her home in Korea and raised as a deadly assassin in Los Angeles. Just when Anes believes she has found true peace, unsettling events drive her to return to Korea to uncover dangerous truths about her home and her past. The original film, which starred Kim Ok-bin who received multiple award nominations and one win for her key performance, […]

Universal, Skybound To Develop KILL THE MINOTAUR Comic Book Adaptation

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More comic book adaptations are abound as of Thursday with word on Kill The Minotaur from creators Christian Cantamessa and Chris Pasetto, following its launch in June. The two scribes are attached to pen a script for the latest big screen adaptation from Universal Pictures and Skybound Entertainment, the same company behind AMC hit televison series, The Walking Dead. Kill the Minotaur is a modern and fantastical take on the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Theseus must enter King Minos’s bizarre Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur, a creature which feeds on human sacrifices, before the monster can escape its prison to threaten the world. The film marks the latest move to proceed since Skybound’s first look deal with Universal back in April of 2015 upon Cantamessa’s own directorial debut, Air, starring Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou. Skybound’s Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst are […]