GUILLERMO DEL TORO AND GRANT MORRISON ANNOUNCE TWO
ALL-NEW PROJECTS FROM LEGENDARY COMICS
PACIFIC RIM GRAPHIC NOVEL AND
ANNIHILATOR SET FOR 2013 RELEASE
Burbank, CA – October 11, 2012 – Film Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth,
Pacific Rim) and comic creator Grant Morrison (Batman, X-Men)
were on hand at Legendary Comics’ pre-New York Comic-Con media event to
announce two all-new projects for the comics division of Legendary
Entertainment. The announcements come on the heels
of the launch of the first volume of The Tower Chronicles, Legendary’s first original IP release written by Matt Wagner and drawn by Simon Bisley.
With these two projects added to the
slate, Legendary is poised for an impressive 2013 with projects also
being released by Mark Waid, Max Brooks, and Shane Davis (Shadow Walk)
and J. Michael Straczynski (The Majestic Files) as well as further releases from
The Tower Chronicles.
Pacific Rim Graphic Novel
As fans continue to soak in all new
details regarding Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures upcoming
motion picture release Pacific Rim, del Toro used New York Comic-Con to
announce
the Pacific Rim graphic novel. A must-read for anyone who wants to see
the movie, the graphic novel will serve as a prequel, providing
important details on the characters and the lead up to the story arc of
the movie. Written by the film’s writer Travis Beacham
(Clash of the Titans), the graphic novel is written in three distinct parts –
covering the in-world history from the first attack up to just before the movie,
Each part tells a complete episode of
that history, dipping selectively in and out of character backstories
and sometimes focusing on new characters who aren't necessarily
in the movie. The idea is to expand the universe and explore how this
war has affected not only our heroes, but the world beyond the
film. That said, Stacker Pentecost's (Idris
Elba) origin will figure into all three parts, tracking his journey to high-ranking commander.
Annihilator
Morrison brings to the pages a thrilling
story starring wild-living screenwriter Ray Spass, who has one last
chance to save his career as he struggles to write a new studio
tent-pole movie,
Annihilator.
The film centers around the incredible
adventures of Max Nomax; a sci-fi rebel anti-hero who’s condemned to a
haunted prison orbiting a supermassive black hole, following an epic
struggle against
the all-knowing, all–powerful artificial life form VADA and his squad
of deadly Annihilators. Found guilty of the Greatest Crime in History,
Nomax has vowed to clear his name by discovering a Cure for Death itself
and resurrecting his lost love.
But with deadlines looming and a
recently-diagnosed brain tumor, Spass is running out of time and
inspiration – until the real Max Nomax mysteriously appears in the world
of 21st century
Los Angeles with no memory of how he got there, only a terrifying warning of imminent destruction and a mission for Ray Spass.
Ray’s tumor is the key—it contains all
the information of Nomax’s adventures, uploaded into Ray’s head before
Nomax made his great escape. Now, Ray has to finish his screenplay in
order to get
the information out of his head and shrink the tumor. Nomax needs Ray
to finish the screenplay so he can remember how to defeat VADA and
ultimately save the universe from extinction – if Makro, the unstoppable
rogue Annihilator, doesn’t kill get to them first,
that is.
But who or what is Max Nomax really?
And why is it the more we learn, the less we want to know? A
heart-stopping suspense thriller. A love story. An impossible mystery. A
tale of vengeance and
defiance – bargains and consequences - life and death – good and evil.
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including some of the world's most popular intellectual property.
Among the wholly-owned projects that Legendary Pictures
is currently developing in-house are the upcoming Seventh Son, directed by Sergei Bodrov; the Jackie Robinson biopic
42; an adaptation of the phenomenally successful interactive game universe
Warcraft; Godzilla, based on Toho Company’s famed character; Warren Ellis’
Gravel; and Mass Effect, based on Electronic Arts’ and
BioWare’s hit videogame franchise. Upcoming Legendary releases with
partner Warner Bros. include the highly anticipated
Pacific Rim, as well as Hangover 3, Man of Steel, Jack the Giant Killer, 300: Rise of an Empire,
and this summer’s The Dark Knight Rises. Previous successful Legendary and Warner Bros. releases include the critically acclaimed
Inception, which has been a box office smash grossing more than $823 million worldwide, as well as the global blockbusters
The Hangover, Parts I and II (over $1 billion worldwide total),
Clash of the Titans ($493 million worldwide), The Dark Knight ($1 billion worldwide), and
300 ($456 million worldwide). The Legendary Comics division just released
The Tower Chronicles, an all-new original IP created by Thomas Tull and developed by Tull and Matt Wagner (Grendel, Mage). Upcoming projects include
Pacific Rim Graphic Novel, Annihilator (Grant Morrison), Shadow Walk (Mark Waid, Max Brooks, Shane Davis), and
The Majestic Files (J. Michael Straczynski).
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