COMICS: Marvel Bringing Back PAINKILLER JANE; Another Movie Adaptation Being Planned

COMICS: Marvel Bringing Back PAINKILLER JANE; Another Movie Adaptation Being Planned

Marvel's Icon imprint will be bringing back Painkiller Jane with creator Jimmy Palmiotti, and you can get details on that (along with artwork from Amanda Conner, Dave Johnson, Juan Santacruz and Paul Mounts) along with an update on a planned movie adaptation, after the jump!

By JoshWilding - Jul 16, 2013 07:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: Comic Book Resources







"I have been working on the screenplay and started thinking more and more that I needed to get back to the character, and then the hard part came up: Where to publish her. I spoke to Joe Quesada, and, because I had already been working on a few Marvel projects, he mentioned the Icon line to me. I spoke to my buddies [there] about what I had planned and told them the talent involved, and we struck a deal. Honestly, I didn't want to go back to writing her 'til I had a better sense how she would fit into the world. I think the last series I did at Dynamite caught the biggest audience the character had, including a really cool female audience I never expected.

The story takes place around New York, Fire Island and in Queens, and we bring a piece of the Middle East here. The story was inspired by reading about a real princess and her life and how she wanted something different for herself. At its most basic, it's Jane versus the world around her once again. My biggest goal with the books are to get people to understand and root for Jane as she gets some peace in her life. Unfortunately, she is a character that attracts chaos on a daily basis, and that is never going to change.

I look at the movie and TV series as alternate realties of the character that existed in different mediums. Both have their good and bad points, but in the end, it opened the book and my work to an international audience, and this can never hurt. The real Painkiller Jane is located in the comic for now, and that's cool. I still have hopes that someone comes along and makes a film or series that respects the original work a bit more. I have spent six months co-writing a screenplay with writer Craig Weeden, and it's just now making the rounds in Hollywood. It's the closest adaptation ever of the work because it came from me."


More comments from Palmiotti can be found by clicking on the link below. What do you guys think about the return of Painkiller Jane? Be sure to sound off with your thoughts in the usual place!

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tvor03
tvor03 - 7/16/2013, 7:23 AM
Writing a screenplay doesn't mean a movie is being planned. Very misleading title.
silverpaladin
silverpaladin - 7/16/2013, 7:36 AM
@ Gusto. She would need cans first to have as a reference. I did not see any cans in the teaser above.
Lozzy
Lozzy - 7/16/2013, 7:46 AM
Who the [frick] is Pain Killer Jane?????
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 7/16/2013, 7:47 AM
I like hot red heads.
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 7/16/2013, 7:50 AM
@monkeyballs
She is wearing a bra..look close on the big cover image,under her arm pit you will notice a small bit of lace from her bra..it's probably a strapless one.
mctrinket
mctrinket - 7/16/2013, 8:14 AM
Girlverine.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/16/2013, 8:29 AM
Who?
blazingkidtes
blazingkidtes - 7/16/2013, 8:32 AM
I loved the painkiller series that stars had before they cancel it so this is great news to get to know the character again and I hope Hollywood take this opportunity and go with it to make a movie
devil
devil - 7/16/2013, 8:33 AM
marvel comic? what is this shit
DVonShakari
DVonShakari - 7/16/2013, 9:13 AM
is Painkiller Jane like Mary Jane, who now likes women, after such a stressed and hurtful relationship with Peter Parker and she's seeking a way to make the world a little better in her own mind??? Am I wrong?
devil
devil - 7/16/2013, 3:01 PM
not apart of the mcu?
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 7/16/2013, 3:47 PM
pointy boobs
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