The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog published an exclusive report that a Sony film based on the soon-to-be-published Image comic DESCENDER will be produced by Josh Bratman. DESCENDER's writer, Jeff Lemire, and artist, Dustin Nguyen, are attached as executive producers. The first issue of DESCENDER is due in comic shops on March 4, 2015.
The story of DESCENDER is a science-fiction tale set in a future where any form of autonomous artificial intelligence (android, robot, etc.) is hunted across the stars to destruction. One such robot, TIM-21, will flee bounty hunters along with a crew of unlikely companions. TIM and crew will set out from a distant mining colony and fly from world to world, facing danger and adversity at every turn. TIM-21 is said to be very lifelike, yet feared by the bounty hunters as a key to galactic destruction.
Nominated for 8 Eisner awards, Lemire recently concluded a run on DC's 'Green Arrow' and will soon begin work on Marvel's 'Hawkeye.' Nguyen is widely known for his work on several 'Batman' titles.
Former Oscar nominee Michael De Luca -- whose credits include executive producer or producer on 'American History X,' 'The Social Network,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Blade,' 'Blade II,' 'Zathura,' 'Thirteen Days,' 'Dark City,' and NOT a single 'Spider-Man' movie – will oversee for the studio. With productions like those to his credit maybe this film is in good hands. Of course he also produced 'Lost in Space,' 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' and both 'Ghostrider' films, so let's keep our fingers crossed that he brings his genius game to this film.
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