A comic book adaptation that also happens to be science fiction? Looks like Paramount is hitting the jackpot! Heat Vision reports that the studio is closing the deal to acquire Insurrection v3.6, a 2011 comic book miniseries from BOOM! Studios. Written by Blake Masters (an awesome 80’s teen comedy villain name), the story centers around a future where corporations now wield more power than governments and wage war on Off-World colonies with private armies made up of clones. Naturally because we’re humans and we’re inherently terrible, the clones are seen as dispensable beings in the eyes of their corporate overlords and after years of never questioning their lives, one clone decides to fight back and start an…dun dun dun…insurrection! Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Many times before. Many many times before. Many many many…okay I’ll stop.
Masters himself is also attached to adapt his own work, and is no stranger to Hollywood and the non-comic book side of the entertainment industry; he created the Showtime series Brotherhood and also acted as a showrunner for NBC’s failed spin-off Law and Order: Los Angeles. In fact Masters got involved with BOOM! Studios after helping adapting another one of their properties, 2 Guns, for Universal. I don’t want to sound like a cynic here but does this smell like “man uses comic book medium to springboard into Hollywood” to anyone else? As a comic book fan that’s a bit insulting. But whatever, that’s business I guess. As long as the movie has something original and isn’t the tired mish mash of already overdone sci-fi tropes it sounds like I’ll be happy.
Has anyone read Insurrection v3.6? Is it any good? Does anyone who creates comic book properties even try to pretend they aren’t just looking for a movie deal anymore?