New Line Moving Ahead With Big Screen Adaptation Of THE GREAT UNKNOWN

New Line Moving Ahead With Big Screen Adaptation Of THE GREAT UNKNOWN

A writer and director have been attached to New Line's big screen adaptation of Image's action comedy comic book series from Man of Action Studios' Duncan Rouleau. Read on for details.

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By JoshWilding - Apr 03, 2012 02:04 PM EST
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter


The Hollywood Reporter reveals that New Line has acquired the rights to Image's The Great Unknown. Michael Starrbury is attached to write the action-comedy and Saturday Night Live digital shorts and MacGruber director Jorma Taccone will helm the adaptation. Mark Gordon and Jennifer Todd are on board as producers. Published in 2009 and 2010, the series was written and drawn by Duncan Rouleau, who is part of Man of Action Studios (the team overseeing Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. The series focuses on a slacker with delusions of grandeur who believes his so-called great ideas are popping up elsewhere. After failing to convince his friends and family that his mind is being pilfered, he goes on a quest to solve the mystery behind the idea thefts.

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TheOneCush
TheOneCush - 4/3/2012, 2:33 PM
Macgruber was stupid and this will probably be stupid.
superotherside
superotherside - 4/3/2012, 2:37 PM
Inception much? :P lol... Who knows it might be good.
TerminatorMode
TerminatorMode - 4/3/2012, 3:07 PM
@wbrowning - i think that was in the news recently and the guy who created greek is writing it (take that as you will)
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 4/3/2012, 4:53 PM
Never heard of this, but it sounds interesting.
skidz
skidz - 4/3/2012, 5:48 PM
Yay, a series about a slacker claiming copywrite infringement. All kidding aside (I've never read it), it doesn't sound very interesting.
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