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Blumhouse teams with John Ridley for superhero comic adaptation The American Way

April 17, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Following on from Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions has added another comic book movie to its slate, with Deadline reporting that the company is teaming with Oscar-winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) for a feature adaptation of Ridley and artist George Jeanty’s superhero comic book series The American Way: Those Above and Those Below.

Published by DC/Vertigo last year as a six-issue limited series and a sequel to Ridley and Jeanty’s 2007 graphic novel The American Way, the property follows a superhero team established in the 1960s called The Civil Defense Corps, which features heroes from different ethnic backgrounds to make the American population feel safe and represented.

The American Way: Those Above and Those Below – and the movie – picks up a decade after the formation of the Civil Defense Corps and its exposure as a propaganda tool for the U.S. government. The surviving members have gone their separate ways, but Jason Fisher, a black superhero known as The New American, remains a crime fighter and tries to become a champion of the disenfranchised, despite the fact they are wary that he is a tool of the heavy-handed police force.

Ridley is set to write the adaptation with a view to directing, and the project is said to be on the fast track at Blumhouse.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: DC, john ridley, the american way

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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