YES!!!
Please, please, please don't fuck this one up, Hollywood!
David Goyer to direct 'Vampire'
New Regency acquires rights to 'Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire'
New Regency has acquired screen rights to "Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire," an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. The authors will write the screenplay, and David Goyer will direct.
The deal, which includes rights to the book and scripting fees, is worth seven figures.
John Baldecchi ("Ultra Violet") and Stacy Maes ("Jumper") will produce.
Just-published by Bantam, the graphic novel tells the story of the awakening of supreme evil on Earth. Lord Henry Baltimore is bitten by a demonic vampire bat on a WWI battlefield. The plague destroys his family, and Baltimore creates a team to hunt and fight the Red King, the embodiment of all evil.
Mignola created the comicbook character and series "Hellboy" and was a conceptual artist on "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Blade 2." Golden has written novels including "The Myth Hunters" and "Wildwood Road," and three of his titles are being developed into movies by studios.
Goyer, who wrote the "Blade" films and directed "Blade 2" and "The Invisible", next directs the Sheldon Turner-scripted X-Men origin film "Magneto" for Fox. He also wrote "Batman Begins" with Christopher Nolan and just worked with Regency and Maes on the upcoming Doug Liman-directed "Jumper".
David Goyer to direct 'Vampire'
New Regency acquires rights to 'Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire'
New Regency has acquired screen rights to "Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire," an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. The authors will write the screenplay, and David Goyer will direct.
The deal, which includes rights to the book and scripting fees, is worth seven figures.
John Baldecchi ("Ultra Violet") and Stacy Maes ("Jumper") will produce.
Just-published by Bantam, the graphic novel tells the story of the awakening of supreme evil on Earth. Lord Henry Baltimore is bitten by a demonic vampire bat on a WWI battlefield. The plague destroys his family, and Baltimore creates a team to hunt and fight the Red King, the embodiment of all evil.
Mignola created the comicbook character and series "Hellboy" and was a conceptual artist on "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Blade 2." Golden has written novels including "The Myth Hunters" and "Wildwood Road," and three of his titles are being developed into movies by studios.
Goyer, who wrote the "Blade" films and directed "Blade 2" and "The Invisible", next directs the Sheldon Turner-scripted X-Men origin film "Magneto" for Fox. He also wrote "Batman Begins" with Christopher Nolan and just worked with Regency and Maes on the upcoming Doug Liman-directed "Jumper".