A while ago we heard that Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to Nate Simpson's comicbook Nonplayer from Image Comics, with a view to setting up a potential tentpole project with producers Roy Lee (The Ring) and David Heyman (the Harry Potter series). Now it seems they have a writer on board to adapt the series, and it's none other than Mrs Jonathan Ross herself, Jane Goldman.
She tells The Playlist..
I’m working on a sci-fi project for Warners. It’s called Nonplayer, an adaptation of a really wonderful comic that just won the Eisner for Newcomer. It’s futuristic, it’s incredible. Science fiction is not a genre I’m used to, but it’s my favorite.
Goldman has quite a bit on her plate now, so her returning to work on the
First Class sequel with Mathew Vaughn is by no means a certainty:
"That's not certain yet. But I'd like to, and Matthew [Vaughn] would like me to.". But having looked in
Nonplayer, it does sound like it would make a pretty good movie..
Nonplayer is a sci-fi/fantasy story about Dana Stevens, a brilliant young woman who retreats from the dismal workaday world of the future into the digital fantasy realm of Jarvath, where she's a fearless warrior. Dana is not alone in her pursuits, however, and before long her adventures begin to cat-and-mouse back and forth between the two worlds.
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