Patrick Stewart, Michael Bay, and Netflix Teaming Up for Fantasy Comic Adaptation Barbaric

Star Trek: Picard skipper and X-Men seasoned Patrick Stewart volition beryllium returning to TV alongside a manager we’re not mostly utilized to seeing confined to the tiny screen—Michael Bay (Transformers franchise)—for an adaptation of Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden’s deed Vault Comics rubric Barbaric.

Netflix and A+E Studios person picked up the project, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games, Daisy Jones and the Six) volition prima alongside Stewart, with Sheldon Turner, writer of  X-Men: First Class, aboard to accommodate the publication and enforcement produce. Vault offers this statement of its irreverent phantasy comic: “Owen the Barbarian has been cursed to bash bully with what remains of his life. His bloodthirsty weapon, Axe, has go his motivation compass with a drinking problem. Together they rotation the realm, foredoomed to assistance immoderate who question assistance. But determination is 1 happening Owen hates much than a beingness with rules: Witches.”

First released successful 2021, Barbaric became a astonishment best-seller and has been translated into aggregate languages. Clafin volition play the witch-hating Owen, portion Stewart volition lend his distinctive pipes to dependable the sentient Axe. Netflix feels similar a bully acceptable for this one, considering the streamer’s phantasy titles (humorous and otherwise) besides see the likes of The Sandman, The Witcher, and the dearly departed Shadow and Bone. What bash you deliberation astir this caller team-up?

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