Sullivan's Sluggers has been optioned for cinema, according to a report. Broken Road Production's Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to bring the horror baseball graphic novel to the big screen. Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe created Sullivan's Sluggers for publication through Image Comics in 2010, and are currently selling the title through Kickstarter, where it has generated more than $$50,000. The story follows (more)...
- 5/31/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
Growing up a Mets fan, I learned quickly that even the sport of baseball could be riddled with stomach churning horrors. However, things are about to get taken to the extreme with the latest graphic novel adaptation that's on its way!
THR reports that Broken Road Production’s Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce an adaptation of Sullivan’s Sluggers, a horror baseball graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe. Tom and Tim Mullen have been tapped to write the script.
Described by Smith as "Major League meets Zombieland and then some,” Sluggers follows has-been baseball manager Casey Sullivan and his dysfunctional minor league Sluggers, who get an invitation to play a small venue game. Soon enough they find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of shape-shifting monsters on a feeding frenzy, and the has-beens...
THR reports that Broken Road Production’s Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce an adaptation of Sullivan’s Sluggers, a horror baseball graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe. Tom and Tim Mullen have been tapped to write the script.
Described by Smith as "Major League meets Zombieland and then some,” Sluggers follows has-been baseball manager Casey Sullivan and his dysfunctional minor league Sluggers, who get an invitation to play a small venue game. Soon enough they find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of shape-shifting monsters on a feeding frenzy, and the has-beens...
- 5/30/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Oftentimes in Hollywood, people will use shorthand to describe the basic gist of a project they're pitching to someone else. You've heard this type of thing before: Grand Piano is "Speed at a piano," etc. Rarely do we get a description that creates an entirely new genre, but THR reports there's a movie in the works that will do just that. Sullivan's Sluggers is based on a baseball horror graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe that's being called "Major League meets Zombieland and then some." Baseball and horror? It's a truly bizarre combination, but as a fan of many baseball movies, I'm intrigued. More below! The plot follows washed-up manager Casey Sullivan and his bumbling, unorganized minor league team The Sluggers as they travel to a small town to play a road game. But the players must quickly remember what it means to use teamwork when they...
- 5/30/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
There's a very cool sounding horror concept being adapted from a graphic novel to the big screen! It's a horror story that centers on baseball, and it's called Sullivan's Sluggers.
The comic was created by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe who describes the story as "Major League meets Zombieland and then some.” The story follows a has-been baseball manager named Casey Sullivan and his dysfunctional minor league Sluggers who get an invitation to play a small venue game. Soon enough, they find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of shape-shifting monsters on a feeding frenzy and the has-beens and wannabes must use long-forgotten skills of teamwork to get out alive.
The 200-page graphic novel is being sold by the creators through the popular online fundraising company Kickstarter.com. They ended up raising six times their pledge goal in the first five days, which is a pretty impressive feat.
The comic was created by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe who describes the story as "Major League meets Zombieland and then some.” The story follows a has-been baseball manager named Casey Sullivan and his dysfunctional minor league Sluggers who get an invitation to play a small venue game. Soon enough, they find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of shape-shifting monsters on a feeding frenzy and the has-beens and wannabes must use long-forgotten skills of teamwork to get out alive.
The 200-page graphic novel is being sold by the creators through the popular online fundraising company Kickstarter.com. They ended up raising six times their pledge goal in the first five days, which is a pretty impressive feat.
- 5/30/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
A second Gladstone's School for World Conquerors has been announced. Mark Andrew Smith has revealed that a second six-issue miniseries is on the way, reports Robot 6 Gladstone's School for World Conquerors: The Battle of the Superhero Archives has been written and three issues drawn by Matthew Weldon, who collaborated with Smith on The New Brighton Archeological Society. The comic centres around an elite (more)...
- 1/1/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
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