Fancy yourself an
Existence 2.0 fan? Have you spent countless nights debating with your friends about who would play Sylvester Baladine? Do you celebrate Paramount's entire catalog? If any of the above apply to you, you may be interested in knowing that Paramount is adapting
Existence 2.0 into a movie.
The film will be adapted by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Platinum Dunes producing (David Alpert is thrown in for flavor). No word on a release date or anything, but word is that Jim Valentino is pretty enthused about the book's transition to film.
EXISTENCE 2.0 is a cinematic book, so translation to the screen is only natural," explains Valentino. "We're excited to see this critically acclaimed title make the leap from page to screen, and the adaptation couldn't be in better hands."
For those not in the know, the Nick Spencer/Ronald Salas created work focuses on the aforementioned Baladine, who ends up assassinated in body. His consciousness manages to transfer to the hitman that killed him, giving him ample opportunity to solve his own murder and save his daughter. The work (alongside the four-issue sequel
Existence 3.0) will be collected in trade paperback form this August.
Full press release below.
PARAMOUNT ADAPTING EXISTENCE 2.0
Paramount Pictures picks up the rights to EXISTENCE 2.0
Berkeley, CA - 22 March 2010 - Miles Millar and Alfred Gough -- the team behind The WB's eternally popular SMALLVILLE -- are adapting EXISTENCE 2.0 for the big screen. Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller's Platinum Dunes is set to produce along with Circle of Confusion's David Alpert.
EXISTENCE 2.0 is a three-issue miniseries published by Image Comics. Written by Nick Spencer (Forgetless, Shuddertown) and drawn by Ronald Salas, the series focuses on self-absorbed physicist Sylvester Baladine. After Baladine's assassination, Baladine finds his consciousness transferred to the body of the hitman who killed him. Things don't seem so bad until the people who "killed" Baladine kidnap his daughter. Baladine is forced to dig up his past to solve his own murder, making himself a target once more.
"EXISTENCE 2.0 is a cinematic book, so translation to the screen is only natural," explains Shadowline Publisher Jim Valentino. "We're excited to see this critically acclaimed title make the leap from page to screen, and the adaptation couldn't be in better hands."
EXISTENCE 2.0 will be collected with its four-issue sequel, EXISTENCE 3.0, in trade paperback and available for sale in August 2010.
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of four major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
Fancy yourself an Existence 2.0 fan? Have you spent countless nights debating with your friends about who would play Sylvester Baladine? Do you celebrate Paramount's entire catalog? If any of the above apply to you, you may be interested in knowing that Paramount is adapting Existence 2.0 into a movie.
The film will be adapted by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Platinum Dunes producing (David Alpert is thrown in for flavor). No word on a release date or anything, but word is that Jim Valentino is pretty enthused about the book's transition to film.
EXISTENCE 2.0 is a cinematic book, so translation to the screen is only natural," explains Valentino. "We're excited to see this critically acclaimed title make the leap from page to screen, and the adaptation couldn't be in better hands."
For those not in the know, the Nick Spencer/Ronald Salas created work focuses on the aforementioned Baladine, who ends up assassinated in body. His consciousness manages to transfer to the hitman that killed him, giving him ample opportunity to solve his own murder and save his daughter. The work (alongside the four-issue sequel Existence 3.0) will be collected in trade paperback form this August.
Full press release below.
PARAMOUNT ADAPTING EXISTENCE 2.0
Paramount Pictures picks up the rights to EXISTENCE 2.0
Berkeley, CA - 22 March 2010 - Miles Millar and Alfred Gough -- the team behind The WB's eternally popular SMALLVILLE -- are adapting EXISTENCE 2.0 for the big screen. Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller's Platinum Dunes is set to produce along with Circle of Confusion's David Alpert.
EXISTENCE 2.0 is a three-issue miniseries published by Image Comics. Written by Nick Spencer (Forgetless, Shuddertown) and drawn by Ronald Salas, the series focuses on self-absorbed physicist Sylvester Baladine. After Baladine's assassination, Baladine finds his consciousness transferred to the body of the hitman who killed him. Things don't seem so bad until the people who "killed" Baladine kidnap his daughter. Baladine is forced to dig up his past to solve his own murder, making himself a target once more.
"EXISTENCE 2.0 is a cinematic book, so translation to the screen is only natural," explains Shadowline Publisher Jim Valentino. "We're excited to see this critically acclaimed title make the leap from page to screen, and the adaptation couldn't be in better hands."
EXISTENCE 2.0 will be collected with its four-issue sequel, EXISTENCE 3.0, in trade paperback and available for sale in August 2010.
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of four major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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