unthinkable• Option watch: Mandalay Pictures has picked up UNTHINKABLE by author Mark Sable and artist Julian Totino Tedesco. The book is published by BOOM!. Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby will produce, along with Mandalay’s Peter Gruber and Cathy Schulman.

Created and written by Mark Sable, “Unthinkable” centers on a brilliant man who was recruited just after 9/11 into a government think tank consisting of America’s most imaginative minds and tasked with dreaming up wild scenarios for possible attacks on U.S. soil. Years after the think tank was disbanded, the attacks the man concocted begin to occur, and he becomes the only one who can stop them. But the government has become his pursuer.

UNTHINKABLE gained a bit of notoriety earlier this year when Sable was detained at LAX after authorities found one of the scripts for the book.
nightfallplatinum• Meanwhile, Aurora has optioned Platinum’s NIGHTFALL by Scott O. Brown and Ferran Xalabarder. The story concerns a man in a prison full of vampires. Has anyone ever seen a copy of this comic?
• Warren Ellis’s GLOBAL FREQUENCY — a 12 issue maxiseries about eh covert operations that battles other covert operations– has already been the subject of a TV pilot, spearheaded by John Rogers and starring Michele Forbes. Although well received by those who saw it, it was never picked up, some say because of anger over the pilot being leaked onto bit torrent sites. (It seems like this would pass for valuable pre-awareness these days.) But someone is trying it again, Ellis writes:

The CW will again try to adapt Warren Ellis’ comic book “Global Frequency,” this time Scott Nimerfro will script the pilot.


Does this count as a remake?

• Idris Elba, lately of THE LOSERS, will play Heimdall in the Thor movie. We did not know Elba was Norse but welcome his participation.

3 COMMENTS

  1. Nightfall: Yep, this magazine-sized OGN was released. I suspect the Diamond orders were small and few copies were printed or sold, which is a shame; it’s a fun book.

    I edited this from the concept, to script, pencils, and colors. After I left Platinum, two other folks oversaw the lettering (also by Scott O. Brown); you’ll see their editing credits on the book.

    Scott had a lot of fun with the story; it’s a prison RUN by vampires, making this a horror and prison break cross-genre.

    For those not familiar with Ferran Xalabarder’s work, it is not to be missed. If I had an HP Lovecraft story to adapt, he’d be my choice for a disgusting-creature artist. He’s got “repulsive” down, and has a grotesque style that reminded me of Richard Corben.

    If you find a copy, it’s worth picking up.

    –Lee Nordling

  2. On “Global Frequency”: They made a nearly perfect pilot – I thought the weakest link was the woman who was supposed to be Sean’s “expert”. There will never be a Miranda Zero equal to Michelle Forbes, who was so sublimely perfect in that role that I doubt I’ll ever really get over her. She feels so right as the founder of the Global Frequency that it’s hard to imagine anyone else measuring up.

  3. On “Global Frequency”: They made a nearly perfect pilot – I thought the weakest link was the woman who was supposed to be Sean’s “expert”. There will never be a Miranda Zero equal to Michelle Forbes, who was so sublimely suited to that role that I doubt I’ll ever really get over her. She feels so right as the founder of the Global Frequency that it’s hard to imagine anyone else measuring up.

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