Idris Elba and David Leitch Teaming With Netflix and Dark Horse to Adapt BANG! Spy Thriller Comic Into Movie
Netflix and Dark Horse have teamed up in a multi-year deal, and are developing a film and TV series. The movie is Bang!, a spy thriller based on the comic book series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres. The story follows “a terrorist cult sets out to start the apocalypse with a series of novels meant to brainwash their readers, with the world’s most celebrated spy then being sent to track down and kill the author responsible.” Idris Elba (The Harder They Fall) will star in the film, written by Kindt (Ninjak vs the Valiant Universe) and Zak Olkewicz, which reunites Olkewicz with director David Leitch following their work on Sony’s recent action flick, Bullet Train.
The series they’re adapting is Mind MGMT, and it is also a series adaptation of a comic book series by Kindt in which “a young woman stumbles onto the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the man who was MIND MGMT’s greatest success – and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?” Curtis Gwinn, the Emmy-nominated writer-producer best known for his work on Stranger Things, will executive produce the series, along with Dark Horse’s Richardson and Goldberg.
Are you a fan of either of these comics? Which project are you most looking forward to seeing?
via: Deadline