Another comic book adaptation is coming, and this time we’re here to report that Watchmen producer Lloyd Levin is planning to make a big-screen adaptation of Matt Wagner‘s Arthurian-tinged 1980s comic Mage.
And yes, the rights to this project had previously been held by Spyglass, with Zack Snyder attached to direct, but the project never took off. Let’s see what Levin can do with the whole thing.
The books are a reinterpretation of the legend of Camelot and “centers on Kevin Matchstick, an alienated young man who discovers he has superhuman abilities, gains a magic baseball bat and defeats the nefarious plans of a being called the Umbra Sprite.”
One thing is for sure, Levin has optioned the rights to Mage with the intention of turning the indie comic into a major film franchise. He is currently looking for a writer to adapt the material, but we had a chance to hear him say:
“It has always been a favorite book of mine. It’s one of the great untapped comicbooks from the ’80s renaissance that also spawned Watchmen and Batman: Dark Knight.”
On the other hand, Wagner looks satisfied with this decision as well, since we heard:
“It’s a great that Lloyd is taking on this material because his approach is to capture the essence of the original source material. The timing is good, too, because in the past, filmmakers tried to fix the material. Now they try to adhere to the material.”
We’ll keep an eye on Mage adaptation, stay tuned!
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