Legendary Entertainment has snapped up the rights to creator Nate Simpson’s comic book series Nonplayer, with Deadline reporting that Eric Pearson (Agent Carter, Thor: Ragnarok) is set to write the script for a big screen adaptation.
Described as “Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Matrix“, Nonplayer revolves around a “delivery girl named Dana Stevens who lives the life she wishes she could as a high-ranking warrior doing anything she can to level up in an augmented reality video game. When AI infects the game and madness spills into the real world, she’ll learn that escaping from reality is no longer an option, and has to level up and become her alter-ego in the real world.”
The first issue of Nonplayer was released by Image Comics in 2011, with the second following in 2015.
