WB, Scott and DiCaprio Reunite for Sleeper

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48081

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
August 19, 2008

The Hollywood Reporter says that Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi are setting up Sleeper at Warner Bros. Cruise is loosely attached to star in the adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic that Raimi would produce with his Star Road Entertainment partner Josh Donen.

Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, "Sleeper," which ran from 2003-05, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass it on to others through skin contact. He is placed undercover in a villainous organization by an intelligence agency and falls for a member of the group, named Miss Misery.

Sleeper is being eyed not only as a starring vehicle for Cruise but also as a possible franchise for Warner Bros. Pictures.

The trade says that it looks like Cruise's next acting gig will be the Spyglass thriller The Tourist. Cruise is currently appearing in a cameo role in Tropic Thunder and will return to theaters on Dec. 26 in Bryan Singer's Valkyrie.

In addition to Sleeper and The Tourist, a third project Cruise is attached to currently is the Working Title/Universal comedy Food Fight.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[green]

I havent read it but...

Spoiler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_(comic_book)
Plot

Holden Carver, a.k.a. The Conductor (although he prefers going by his real name), is placed undercover in Tao's criminal organization by John Lynch, the director of Internal Operations after being fused with an alien artifact that makes him impervious to pain, gives him a powerful healing factor, and allows him to store pain he receives and pass it on to others through skin contact. Holden hates these abilities and constantly wishes to be rid of them. Lynch falls into a coma after being shot by Grifter (who had been brainwashed by Tao), leaving Holden with no link to the outside world.
He quickly rises through the ranks of Tao's syndicate and becomes one of his lieutenants, called "Prodigals". He falls in love with another Prodigal named Miss Misery and befriends Genocide Jones, a super-strong, bullet-proof member of Tao's organization. The series also focuses on Holden's internal struggle over whether or not there is a difference between his actions while serving Tao and his actions while serving Lynch.
After unsuccessfully trying to escape, Tao learns of Holden's true allegiance (though he always knew and was just "playing" with Holden, hoping that he could turn him to his side) and Holden is forced to live on the run. With the help of Peter Grimm, his most trusted Prodigal, Tao captures Holden and tells him that he is a survivor, past petty concepts like "good" and "evil." Beginning to believe Tao and seeing no other options, Holden rejoins Tao's organization, this time as a true criminal. As Season One ends, John Lynch miraculously awakes from his coma.
Coup D'Etat comes to pass and the members of Tao's organization are forced into hiding so The Authority cannot discover them. Holden is now a full-fledged villain and a trusted Prodigal. While on a mission with his own band of Torpedoes (lover-level members of Tao's organization) called the Hounds, consisting of the eager-to-please Pit Bull (introduced in Season One) and the werewolf Blackwolf, Holden is contacted by an agent of John Lynch. Lynch wants Holden to leave Tao and defect back to I.O. He later presents Holden with a member of the alien race who built the artifact that gave Holden his abilities and promises that if he agrees to come back he'll rid him of his powers.
Holden then begins to play both sides against the middle, hoping he will be able to free himself of his obligations to Tao and Lynch and run away with Miss Misery. As this goes on, he tries to reform, despite knowing that he will never again be the man he thought he was before falling in with Tao.
At the end of Season Two, Holden Carver is left in a vegetative state. Lynch puts him under the influence of a psychoactive drug which has the vegetative Holden believe that he is finally retired and living with Miss Misery and his ex-wife, Veronica St. James, on a tropical island. Tao had his tongue ripped out by Holden as a last effort to 'disarm' the main villain of the series before being handed over to Lynch. It is here that the story ends.

Darn that sounds promising. Im gonna have to search for the books now.

 

[Shifty]

Looks like George Clooney would be better suited for the role.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49734

Source: Variety
October 15, 2008


Just a few short days after the release of the political thriller Body of Lies, Variety is reporting that the team behind it will be reunited as Warner Bros. has hired writer Brad Ingelsby to adapt the DC/Wildstorm comic Sleeper, created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, for a film which will reunite director Ridley Scott and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Produced by Sam Raimi with his partner Josh Donen, the concept revolves around characters in the Wildstorm Universe created by Jim Lee in his "Wildcats" comic, this one focusing on Holden Carver, a sleeper agent who has powers that make him impervious to pain and has been placed within a criminal organization. Things go wrong when his superior is put into a coma and he finds himself on the run with both sides of law enforcement after him. The keen-minded might remember that DiCaprio played a similar undercover agent in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning movie The Departed, also for Warner Bros.

Things change.

 

[Project862006]

funny thing is cruise looks like the main guy alot more guy looks like Thomas jane honestly

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49751

Brad Ingelsby to Write Sleeper
Source: Variety
October 16, 2008


Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Brad Ingelsby to write Sleeper, an adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic being produced by Sam Raimi with Star Road Entertainment partner Josh Donen, reports Variety.

The comic, written by Ed Brubaker, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass the ability on to others through skin contact.

Ingelsby made his first script sale in March, selling Low Dweller for Ridley Scott to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to star in.

The article about Leo and Ridley was removed.