Exclusive: Paramount picks up comic book movie 'Harbinger' from Sony
, the adaptation of a superhero comic published by Valiant Entertainment, has been scooped up by Paramount from its initial home, Sony Entertainment.
Making the cross-town segue are also filmmaker Justin Tipping and the script by Tipping and Joshua Beirne-Golden working off an original draft by Eric Heisserer . Also remaining involved is producer Neal Moritz, who was key in the transfer and who moved his first-look deal from Sony to Paramount in 2018.tells the story of a group of super-powered teens who rebel against the corporation that tried to harness their abilities for their own ends.
The project was to have shot this summer or fall, and had actors Dylan O’Brien and Noah Centineo circling, but is no longer on the fast-track, say sources. The plan is to haveundergo a short development process at Paramount before moving forward with the same the creative team. Moritz will produce with Toby Jaffe and Valiant Comics' Dan Mintz.
With designs of building its own cinematic universe, a VCU if one will, the company was already hitching its wagon to Sony, where it set up several of its titles, including. The latter is Valiant’s first produced movie, and stars Vin Diesel. Sony is hoping it launches a franchise when it opens Feb. 21, 2020.was to have been the second title to go, also a potential franchise-starter, and Marvel Studios-like, was to have connected withafter the 2013 comic book series of the same name.
That crossover is now unlikely to happen and neither is a VCU with those characters. With the Paramount deal, Valiant now finds itself in the situation similar to 1990s Marvel, with licensed characters at more than one studio. And it could, down the line, even find itself in a similar scenario of a
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