Back in 2019 leading up to the premier of the Deadly Class TV show, Rick Remender sat down with Henry Rollins and had a conversation that dives deep into Rollins' punk roots and the spoken word, as well as the politics behind Deadly Class. Sit back and enjoy the conversation.
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A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance. The new title will be an ongoing series involving a murder mystery and a fight against a powerful enemy. Screen Rant has an exclusive preview of this series from the creative team of Rick Remender, André Araújo, and Chris O'Halloran.
When an unassuming man stumbles upon a dark-web contract assassin's vicious plot to kill an innocent target, he turns himself into one. The Professional meets Road to Perdition in this story of a family's unlikely guardian being hunted by rich and powerful men who are used to getting away with everything.
Rick Remender will be penning this series. For Image Comics, he has written The Scumbag, Deadly Class, and Black Science. He has also written comics for Dark Horse and Marvel, which include Venom, Gigantic, Punisher, Fear Agent, and Captain America. André Araújo was the artist on Generation Gone and Man Plus for Image Comics. He has also provided art for Marvel titles that include Black Panther: Long Live the King, Avengers a.I., and Edge of Venomverse. Now the two will join forces with Chris O'Halloran on A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance, coming October 2021. Check out this exclusive preview and comments from the creative team below:
Rick Remender, the series writer, stated, "After years of wanting to work with André I couldn't be more excited to get this into the world. It's a decompressed atmosphere story unlike anything we've ever done before and the exact type of methodical crime book I've always wanted to do."
André Araújo, the series artist, stated, "When Rick and I finally got together after years of planning it, we knew we had to try and push for something special. Our storytelling approach, a decompressed and carefully crafted narrative, became our key to do just that. This is something I've always dreamed of doing and I'm beyond thrilled to share this with everyone else."
This Image Comics preview features a man who currently has no revealed name, in British Columbia. He walks out from a stairwell located next to a shop where he encounters an elderly couple briefly, before getting on a bus. Already there are some very mysterious vibes as he reads about a sex trafficking case on his phone, all of which provides some hints that this is rather suspicious. Most likely this will be the unassuming man whose life is about to become very complicated and dangerous. This comic is being compared to the 1994 film, The Professional, in which a hitman takes in a young girl who becomes an apprentice of sorts. It also strikes a comparison with Road to Perdition, drawing another parallel between organized crime and family. This man's foes are likely richer, more powerful, and threatening than he currently appears, though that early assumption is likely to change once the series is underway and readers find out more about who he is and what he can do. A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance from Image Comics will begin releasing on October 13, 2021.
Article courtesy of Screen Rant: https://screenrant.com/righteous-thirst-for-vengeance-image-comic-preview/
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Seth Rogen, Matt Tolmach and David F. Sandberg have teamed up to adapt the Rick Remender-written comic Fear Agent as a series.
Amazon has won a competitive bidding war to pick up rights to the title, beating out Peacock, HBO Max and TNT, according to sources.
Sandberg, who directed Shazam! and Annabelle: Creation, is on board to helm and executive produce while rising scribe Mattson Tomlin, who co-wrote Robert Pattinson-led The Batman, will pen the pilot.
Rogen and his Point Grey Productions partners Evan Goldberg and James Weaver are exec producing with Tolmach and David Manpearl. The group previously teamed for the sci-fi comedy Future Man that streamed on Hulu. Tolmach identified the title 10 years ago, trying to find the best way into the ambitious and offbeat comic.
Remender and Agent co-creator Tony Moore, who drew the series, are also exec producing as is Lotta Losten. Josh Fagen is overseeing for Point Grey.
The setting up of Agent comes as Remender, the prolific creator who is making heavy inroads into the comics-to-screen business, signs a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, which is behind Agent. Remender previously teamed with SPT to turn his comic Deadly Class into a series for Syfy. He also acted as showrunner, marking one of the few times a comics creator rose to that level. (In most adaptations, comic creators have minimal involvement in the adaptation of their works.)
The logline is thus: Interstellar invaders. Time travel. Clones of clones of clones, and lots of whiskey. Whether he’s battling the scourge of space, going back in time to stop the alien invasion that changed Earth forever, or winning his ex-wife back, there’s nothing that Heath Huston won’t do to try to right the wrongs and gets his family back. He is, after all, the last Fear Agent.
The comic, with Jerome Opena also an artist on the series, was first published by Image when it launched in 2005 then moved to Dark Horse, which became its home until the story’s conclusion in 2012. The comic had a dedicated following and attracted Hollywood attention early on, with Universal at one point developing an adaptation for the big screen.
Rogen's Point Grey has already made inroads into Amazon's series business, exec producing the adaptation of the Garth Ennis-written comic The Boys. The company is also behind the well-received comic book adaptation of Preacher for AMC.
Tolmach is currently in production on Spider-Man spinoff feature Venom 2 and is in post on Morbius, also based on a Spider-Man-adjacent character. He is also coming off the blockbuster performance of Jumanji: The Next Level, which has grossed over $712 million worldwide; the rebooted Jumanji franchise has now made almost $1.8 billion.
Remender's imprint Giant Generator recently signed an exclusive deal with Image Comics. He is repped by UTA and Katz Golden.
Sandberg, repped by Paradigm, Gotham Group and Jackoway Austen, is prepping to mount a sequel to Shazam! for New Line. The DC Comics-based project is eying a summer start.
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20 years ago, my good friend, Harper Jaten co-opted the Bad Religion song, “Generator,” to use as a term to describe a person who stands up and gets to work making the thing they want to make. To be a Generator was to be a person who ignites a fuse, the inciting motivator of creation.
It can seem that the only way to get something made is to continuously knock on the door of someone of influence and power and hope that they anoint you, play advocate, and usher you onto the stage, to legitimize you. But growing up listening to punk, we were infused with a belief in something different, that there was a better road forward, to simply do it yourself. The size of the stage is far less important than maintaining a purity of intention.
So, way back in 1997, we got together with some friends, and we made our own comic books. We did everything. We wrote, drew, inked, Zip-a-Toned, lettered, published, and distributed them. We gave all of our free time over to making them. And I could never stop, not one year since then; I've been making comic books for 20 solid years now.
So, you know, that's the meaning behind my new, somewhat self-congratulatory studio name, GIANT GENERATOR. Itʼs a name that serves as a reminder of what I set out to do, of why I wanted to make my own comic books with like-minded people, of why it's important to generate in a world where most everyone prefers to parrot the songs of someone else. Itʼs a studio focused on grabbing that initial spark, that initial moment of excitement when an idea forms, and feeding its flames -- building it and creating something real out of it.
Giant Generator is a studio dedicated to collaboration, co-ownership, and innovation, to produce art and stories from unique, personal and strange sparks, to create from a place of passion, mindless of trends or the mainstream spotlight, to making the books, shows, films and toys we want to make the way we want to make them.
To generate.
Thank you for supporting our efforts,
Rick Remender
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