Italian Comic Book "Dylan Dog" to Become Feature Film Starring Brandon Routh
Platinum Studios’ Scott Mitchell Rosenberg to produce, alongside Hyde Park chairman and CEO Ashok Amritraj.
Brandon Routh, (Superman Returns), is set to star as “Dylan” – a private investigator who is drawn into the world of the undead.
Kevin Munroe, whose 2007 re-imagining of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles resurrected the billion dollar franchise, will direct a script by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly (Sahara and Conan The Barbarian).
Hyde Park chairman and CEO, Amritraj will produce alongside Platinum Studios’ chairman and CEO, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who brought the billon dollar Men In Black franchise to Sony. Platinum Studios’ Rich Marincic will co-produce and Hyde Park’s Patrick Aiello will executive produce. Former Universal Pictures senior executive Randy Greenberg of the Greenberg Group, who helped negotiate the deal with Platinum Studio’s General Counsel Helene Pretsky, will executive produce. SAF Comics president, Ervin Rustemagic will also executive produce.
Hyde Park is currently in production on Street Fighter, based on the extremely popular video game that is being directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak under Hyde Park's first look co-production deal with 20th Century Fox. Hyde Park also recently released Premonition through Sony, Death Sentence through Fox and is in post production on Thomas Jane’s directorial debut in 3D, The Dark Country, which he also starred in, for Sony’s Stage 6. Hyde Park just wrapped the Jesse Metcalfe romantic comedy cross-cultural starrer, The Other End of the Line, which will be released through MGM.
Other companies in the Hyde Park Entertainment Group include Hyde Park International, Hyde Park Animation, and Hyde Park Asia, each of which have their own projects in various stages of development and production.
Platinum Studios’ film and TV division has various other properties in development at major film studios, including Atlantis Rising at DreamWorks with Kurtzman/Orci (Transformers) set to produce, Cowboys & Aliens again at DreamWorks with Kurtzman/Orci patnering with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, and Unique at Walt Disney Pictures.
Al Ovadia & Associates has been hired by Platinum Studios and Hyde Park as worldwide agent for merchandising both the Picture and the comic book property. The company’s President, Al Ovadia, is the former head of both 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures Entertainment Consumer Products. Ovadia has managed a number of the entertainment industry's successful merchandising programs including Fox’s global launch of The Simpsons, as well as, Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 feature films.
"I am thrilled to have a chance start a relationship with Hyde Park and to renew one with Scott Rosenberg that dates back to the hugely successful, Men in Black,” said Ovadia. “With only limited previous licensing over Dylan Dog's twenty plus year life, and a fan base in the millions, we are hopeful that classic Dylan Dog and the feature Dead of Night will be big hits, in Italy and around the world.”
------------
Platinum Studios is an entertainment company that controls an international library of comic book characters from all over the world, which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media including print, film, online, mobile / wireless, gaming, and merchandising. Platinum Studios’ library contains more than 3,800 characters spanning a full range of genres and styles, and also includes properties such as www.DrunkDuck.com, the industry’s preeminent webcomics community. Working with leading companies in the entertainment and new media sectors, Platinum believes it is well positioned to emerge as one of the front-runners in the creation of new content across all media platforms. Platinum Studios - Comics Fueling Media EVERYWHERE!
For information about the Platinum Studios Comic Book Challenge, go to:
www.comicbookchallenge.com
DISCLAIMER: This posting was submitted by a user of the site not from Earth's Mightiest editorial staff. All users have acknowledged and agreed that the submission of their content is in compliance with our Terms of Use. For removal of copyrighted material, please contact us HERE.