Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the movie rights to bestselling and award-winning author Jeff Lemire and illustrator Emi Lenox’s comic series Plutona, with Waypoint’s Ken Kao (The Nice Guys) set to produce a big screen adaptation alongside partner partner Dan Kao and Addictive Pictures’ Russell Ackerman (Mama) and John Schoenfelder.
“Emi and I are extremely excited to be working with Waypoint Entertainment and Addictive Pictures to help bring our vision for Plutona to the big screen,” said Lemire. “Plutona has been a labor of love for us and we were very careful about finding a home for it, and we are thrilled that the team at Addictive and Waypoint share our passion for the story and for its potential as a film.”
Plutona is a coming-of-age story which centers on a group of kids who find the body of a famous dead superhero in the woods. Image Comics launched the five-issue limited series, on September 2015 to critical acclaim.
Waypoint Entertainment recently acquired the rights to two Mark Millar properties, American Jesus and Supercrooks, which Ken Kao and Dan Kao and Addictive Pictures. They are also in pre-production on the sci-fi thriller Tau, directed by Federico D’ Alessandro and starring Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein.
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Originally published July 15, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
