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Regina King To Direct Image Comics' Bitter Root Movie Adaptation Regina King returns to the world of comics after an award-winning turn in HBO's Watchmen. Regina King blew us away as Angela Abar in HBO's Watchmen, and now she's diving back into comic books on the other side of the camera, directing the film adaptation of Image Comics' race-themed Bitter Root for Legendary Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bitter Root, created by David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown, tells the story of the monster-hunting Sangreye family during the Harlem Renaissance. Here's Legen...

Regina King to Direct Legendary’s Monster Hunting Movie Bitter Root (Photo by Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images) Oscar-winning actress-turned-director Regina King has officially signed on to helm Legendary’s upcoming film adaptation of Bitter Root, based on Image Comics’ acclaimed comic book series. The project is being described as Get Out meets Blade which will center around a monster-hunting family in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. In addition to directing, King will also be serving as a producer through her Royal Ties banner along with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler via...

The comic book serves as the follow-up to Henderson and Garbett’s Skyward, which was nominated for the Eisner Award. Sony Pictures acquired the rights to Skyward in 2018 with Brad Peyton ( San Andreas, Rampage) attached to direct. Skyward is set in a world where the Earth has lost a fraction of its gravity. Fast forward 20 years into the future, our society has accustomed their lifestyles around the gravity situation. Among these people is Willa Fowler who was born after “G-Day”, who has uncovered a plot to restore gravity to its normal state. You can pick up the first issue from Im...

Late last year, Boom Studio’s excellent Power Rangers comic dropped a huge bombshell with the…Read more It’s got a big vibe of the kind of personal struggle and superhero antics that feels very evocative on not just Higgins and Costa’s prior work with the Power Rangers ongoing at Boom Studios, but that series’ own larger-than-life roots in the world of Japan’s tokusatsu heroes. To find out more about the new series, io9 chatted with Higgins and Costa over email about inspirations, collaborating on a creator-owned take evocative of the franchises they’ve loved and worked on, and...

Batman — strike out on their own with a new science fiction horror property. Heat Vision “ Nocterra is a high-octane horror series about a mysterious darkness that suddenly envelops the earth — a darkness that changes every living creature into a monstrous version of itself called a shade. The only way to avoid being turned into a shade yourself is to stay lit by whatever illumination you can find,” Snyder told THR. “Our story takes place in 13PM — thirteen years after darkness fell — and our main character, Val Riggs, i...