EXCLUSIVE: Since revamping many of the Marvel characters, the prolific Mark Millar has been creating a number of new comic book franchises that have then been made into movies Captain America: Civil War, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kick-Ass and Wanted. Now comes word that he is dropping one of his most anticipated comic series after nabbing the talents of DC Comics Batman artist Greg Capullo. The property which has the potential of being another big IP for movie studios and/or the television networks is entitled Reborn.
Co-created by Millar and Capullo, Reborn will be released in October from Millarworld which fully financed the monthly series, which will run over six months. The story follows Bonnie Black, an 80 year-old woman who is afraid to die but then when she passes shes shocked to find there is a world beyond our own.
Its not Heaven. Its not Hell, states the synopsis. Its as real and hard as where we live now, but filled with the most amazing fantasy landscapes, jaw-dropping creatures and a battle raging between good and evil. The people she loved in this world her father and her childhood dog but oddly, not her husband who had passed over 14 years before. So she sets out to find him. She realizes that she has been reborn as a 25 year-old woman with a sword in her hand and gun of her hip and embarks on an adventure she searches for the lost love of her life.
The idea is always to create the project and then find the right producer for it, Millar told Deadline. We have an idea of who would be good for this one. It must be someone who will understand the story and is passionate about bringing our vision to the screen.
Millar is a highly regarded and successful comic book writer, whose work also includes The Ultimates, which inspired much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Several of his original works Superior, Chrononauts, Empress (with producer Joe Roth), Huck, MPH, and Starlight are already in development for film or television
