Graphic novel series A vicious circle already tells a cinematic story – following time-traveling assassins who hunt each other through the past and future – and now the title is taking its next logical step. It will become a film produced by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) and adapted by Mattson Tomlin, who created the original novels with artist Lee Bermejo, and is also the showrunner of Netflix Terminator Zero animated series.
This news comes from The Hollywood Reporterwho notes that the project is a two-person project seductively dubbed “John Wick meets Curler.” The Eisner nominee A vicious circleThe official description confirms this: “Shawn Thacker is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man suffering from his affliction – each life they take forces them both to travel between very past and future eras. different. Spanning from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, the two mortal rivals are engaged in a battle of wills that spans millions of years , all to change the course of history.
The two big names involved are very busy at the moment: Tomlin Terminator Zero debuted on August 29 and he also co-wrote The Batman II screenplay with Matt Reeves; Coogler, of course, has this mysterious maybe-vampire movie in the works with Michael B. Jordan, but we look forward to this creative collaboration as soon as it happens.
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