The Massive-Verse’s No/One Is Making the Jump To Film

Nearly 2 years ago, Image Comics’ Massive-Verse got a funny small summation to its lineup successful Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccatello, and Geraldo Borges’ NO/ONE. Instead of riffing connected the tokusatsu genre similar chap comics Radiant Black and The Dead Lucky, this is simply a 10-part noir communicative that had immoderate other value down it acknowledgment to a companion podcast starring Patton Oswalt and Rachel Leigh Cook. Like different Massive-Verse books, it feels tailor made to leap implicit to different mediums, and that’s coming successful the signifier of a diagnostic film.

As revealed during the Massive-Verse’s sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con, No/One is coming to the large surface courtesy of Higgins’ Black Market Narrative and accumulation institution ZQ Entertainment. Higgins volition besides co-write the screenplay with Buccatello and nonstop the movie, marking his diagnostic debut aft antecedently helming the abbreviated films The League and The Shadow Hours. The movie adaptation volition reportedly get elements of the podcast, but it’s chartless if that means its dependable cast—which besides includes Star Trek: Picard’s Todd Stashwick—will beryllium among them.

No/One first released aboriginal past twelvemonth and focused connected a bid of gruesome killings successful Pittsburgh known arsenic the Richard Roe murders. Across the 10-part comic, the publication explored the fallout from these killings, including copycats, a increasing governmental movement, and the emergence of a titular vigilante. The bid lone conscionable wrapped with its last section earlier this week, but it sounds similar it’s been a consistently strong seller for Image since its launch. It’s decidedly a large measurement up for the Massive-Verse, and opens the doorway for the much superheroic exploits of Radiant Black and others successful his orbit to upwind up with adaptations of their own, should No/One take disconnected with audiences.

[via TheWrap]

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