Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, partners in Working Title Films, have made a deal to turn Kurt Busiek's graphic novel series Astro City into a live action film. The deal gives Busiek his first chance at script writing. The Astro City series has won Eisner and Harvey awards for Busiek.
Bevan and Fellner will produce with Busiek, Johnathan Alpers and Ben Barenholtz executive producing.
For those not familiar with Astro City, here is a brief synopsis from Dealine...
Launched in 1995, the series has a Sin City anthology vibe, set in a world crammed with superheros and super-villains. Stories are told from the vantage point of those heroes and villains, as well as the humans who get caught between them. Heroes range from Samaritan, The Hanged Man, The Apollo Eleven--a group of astronauts mutated during a moon landing--to Winged Beauty, a feisty feminist who always saves women first.
Hawksblueyes: I will be looking forward to this one.