In accordance with THR, Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. are reuniting for Psychic Sam, a brand new comedian e-book a couple of man who can predict murders earlier than they occur. The mission launched on Kickstarter as we speak (as of this writing, they’ve practically reached their aim), however there’s already discuss of a film.
“It’s a couple of man with an enormous gun who goes out and solves issues. He hears voices in his head that inform him to kill unhealthy guys,” mentioned Millar within the announcement. “The one bother is, the unhealthy guys haven’t completed something but. However each time he ignores it, somebody harmless dies. It’s solely a matter of time earlier than the our bodies pile up.” It’s been over 15 years since Millar and Romita Jr. labored collectively on Kick-Ass, which spawned a function movie adaptation and a sequel.
Talking of flicks, producer Ivan Atkinson (The Gents) is onboard to develop Psychic Sam as a function. In his e-newsletter, Millar teased, “We’ll begin spilling the beans on the writers, director and who we’ve received lined up for Sam over the approaching weeks and months. It’s UNBELIEVABLY thrilling and an opportunity to work with some outdated associates once more (wait ’til you see WHO). Johnny and I are actually pumped about this and might’t wait to share what we’ve been engaged on.“
Millar mentioned the mission took place after he acquired gives from Marvel to do an enormous crossover collection and from DC to do a Superman mission. Whereas he contemplated what to do, he received a name from Romita Jr. “Johnny and I did Wolverine collectively early in my profession and beloved working collectively a lot that we created Kick-Ass to work on a couple of years later,” he mentioned. “Kick-Ass spawned motion pictures, t-shirts, Halloween costumes and even Pez dispensers and we’ve all the time talked about working collectively once more, however by no means discovered the suitable mission. On the identical time, Man Ritchie’s sensible producer Ivan Atkinson and I had been speaking about doing a film collectively and simply on the lookout for the suitable car. Ivan has produced a few of my favorite motion pictures and TV exhibits lately from The Gents to Wrath of Man to Paramount’s latest MobLand. So, once more, I needed to make this one thing nice if we have been lastly going to be working collectively.”
He then determined to make use of the time he’d put apart for the potential Marvel and/or DC initiatives to develop one thing new. “Not Marvel, not DC, not even certainly one of my Millarworld initiatives at Netflix,” he mentioned. “Johnny and I might create one thing completely for the Kickstarter market (which we’d by no means tried earlier than) and staff up with Ivan to make the film on the identical time.“
One of many incentives provided on the Psychic Sam Kickstarter marketing campaign is the prospect to look in one of many points as a homicide sufferer. Sounds enjoyable.