While his planned Marvel Television series for ABC may have failed to materialise, Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) is set to make his Marvel Comics debut this coming January with a story in Wolverine: Black, White, & Blood. Ridley will team with artist Jorge Fornes (Daredevil) on the story, which will take […]
Blumhouse teams with John Ridley for superhero comic adaptation The American Way
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 […]
Rumour: John Ridley’s mystery Marvel project reportedly a Ms. Marvel TV show
Back in April 2015 it was announced that Marvel was teaming with Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) for a TV project, details of which have been shrouded in mystery. We’ve had very little in the way of news regarding the project, with the last update coming in January of last year […]
John Ridley to write and direct A Needle in a Timestack
American Crime creator John Ridley is set to write and direct the sci-fi time travel tale A Needle in a Timestack for Miramax, Variety has revealed. The project is based on a short story by Robert Silverberg and follows ” a devoted husband who will stop at nothing to save his marriage when it’s destroyed […]
Regina King and John Ridley reuniting for No Place Safe
American Crime star Regina King is set to reunite with series creator John Ridley to develop No Place Safe, a new drama for FX which is based on the Atlanta child murders of the 1970s and 1980s. Based on Kim Reid’s memoir and penned by Wendy Calhoun (Empire), the series will take place in 1979 […]
John Ridley says his Marvel TV show “is still very much alive”
Over the weekend ABC announced that it had officially given a pilot order to Marvel’s Most Wanted, the upcoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff centred on Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood). However, there was no news on the mystery Marvel TV project from Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime), which has […]
John Ridley gives a brief update on his Marvel TV show
Back in April it was revealed that Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) is in development on a new Marvel television series for ABC. Since then, we’ve heard very little about the mystery project, but Ridley has offered up a brief update to AV Club. “The only thing I can say […]
Marvel and ABC developing new superhero TV series with Oscar-winning producer John Ridley
It looks like the proposed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff isn’t the only Marvel TV project in development at ABC, with Entertainment Weekly revealing that Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) for a mystery project, which “involves reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property for ABC.” Should it and the S.H.I.E.L.D. […]