In an interview with
Unleash the Fanboy, Marc Silvestri one of the originators of famed Image
Comics and now co-creator and CEO of Top Cow Productions, gave us insight on
possible films to be released based on some of their most famous characters
including The Darkness, Witchblade and
Think Tank
Here's an excerpt from that interview
"We’re partnered with Len Wiseman on The Darkness film.
It’s over at New Regency, which is on the Fox lot. We’ve gotten one draft of
the script and we’re working on that right now. It’s going to happen.
Witchblade is in the Darkness film. Originally she was going to be in there as
an Easter egg for the fans, who would know: hey, that’s Sara Pezzini, that’s
the Witchblade.'
"The more we went along with the story, and the great
thing is, the studio supports this. Len loves this, which is great because Len
loves The Darkness, and that’s what you want on your team. He knows more about
The Darkness than I do. He’ll say, oh, remember when this happened in this
issue, and I’ll go, ooooh, why yes, I do. He’s awesome, his enthusiasm is
awesome. Obviously, he’s this talented director, so we’re really excited to
have him In there.'
Silvestri elaborated on the appearance of Witchblade in the
script:
"As we were going along, it just made more and more
sense storywise to have Witchblade in there. I’m not going to spoil too much
more, but it makes perfect sense. First we were kind of worried, how do you,
two origins, but it started to come together.
It started to make more and more sense. We’re excited about that, that’s
a big project that we’re working on right now."
Silvestri also spoke about a film adaptation of Matt Hawkins
and Rahsan Ekedal's Think Tank, which is also in development.
"We have TV things that are going on, other movie
projects going on. Think Tank, we’re developing that as a feature film. Today
it’s all about making things happen in comics, and then working for the extra
gravy that could be in other media. But our first love is comics, and I’ll
always tell people that I dip my toes in all forms of entertainment, from
gaming to TV and film, and there is nothing that is more satisfying politically
and more directly, without any filters between the creator and the end product,
than comic books. We’ll always be a comic book publisher, we’ll always make
comic books, and if we do something over and above that, you know the media
games, whatever, great."
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