NETFLIX AND DARK HORSE ENTERTAINMENT EXTEND CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP :: Weblog :: Darkish Horse Comics

Netflix and Darkish Horse Leisure have prolonged their first look deal. Beneath this multi-year deal, Darkish Horse will proceed to present Netflix a primary take a look at its IP for each movie and TV. 

• Netflix and Darkish Horse lately collaborated on the third season of The Umbrella Academy, which in its first 4 weeks reached the Netflix International Prime 10 in TV in 91 international locations with 283.55M hours seen (as of July 17, 2022) 

• New tasks in lively improvement below the Darkish Horse Leisure banner embrace:

  • Bang! starring Idris Elba (The More durable They Fall, Concrete Cowboy, Luther) and directed by David Leitch (Bullet Prepare, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) 

    • Primarily based on the comedian collection by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres, the function movie adaptation of this trendy spy thriller will likely be written by Kindt (Ninjak vs the Valiant Universe) and Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Prepare, Worry Road Half 2: 1978)

    • Producers: Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Darkish Horse, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North, and Idris Elba

    • Logline: When a terrorist cult units out to start out the apocalypse with a collection of novels meant to brainwash their readers, the world’s most celebrated spy is shipped to trace down and kill the creator accountable.

  • Thoughts MGMT with Curtis Gwinn (Stranger Issues) set to Govt Produce this collection adaptation of the comedian e-book collection by Matt Kindt

    • Logline: A younger lady stumbles onto the top-secret Thoughts Administration program. Her ensuing journey entails weaponized psychics, hypnotic promoting, speaking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she makes an attempt to search out the person who was MIND MGMT’s biggest success – and its most devastating failure. However in a world the place folks can rewrite actuality itself, can she belief something she sees?

    • Govt Producers: Curtis Gwinn, and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Darkish Horse

• Subsequent up for Darkish Horse is the 8 episode collection Grendel, based mostly on the traditional comedian by Matt Wagner. Andrew Dabb (Resident Evil, Supernatural) created the collection, which is in post-production.

• Earlier Darkish Horse Leisure releases embrace the Netflix movie Polar, starring Mads Mikkelsen, the Netflix animated collection Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, returning later this 12 months with Season 2, and the animated movie Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness, which lately spent 4 weeks on the Netflix TV (English) Prime 10.