After generating a lot of appeal at Comic-Con in 2010, Daniel LuVisi‘s graphic novel Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter is finally making its way to the big screen. ShowBlitz tells us that Paramount has hired Orphan writer David Leslie Johnson to write the adaptation.
As ShowBlitz informs us, the original comic followed “an invincible soldier created to help Earth win a war against Mars, who’s “framed for a heinous crime by a terrorist organization and, after a nine-year prison sentence, escapes to even the score.” Sounds like there’s plenty of room for entertainment and world-building, staples that many filmmakers have tried — and many filmmakers have failed — to implement in their sci-fi projects as of late.
Besides 2009’s Orphan, Johnson has also penned the recent fairy tale picture Red Riding Hood, and has Wrath of the Titans, the sequel to Louis Leterrier‘s Clash of the Titans, hitting at the end of this coming March. He isn’t really known for scribing any particular genre, so the futuristic world of LMS could end up being his calling.
Do you think Johnson is a good pick to adapt LMS?