Rosario Dawson, fresh from her own comics series for Image – Occult Crimes Taksforce – is again dipping her toes into the fantastic genres, this time in the form of an online science fiction series. The Gemini Division comes from the same group who created the online series Afterworld (which Rosario lent her voice to) and will comprise of one hundred three minute episodes following Rosario’s New York City cop investigating the murder of her husband and stumbling upon a global conspiracy involving artificial lifeforms. The series will use a mixture of live action and motion-capture animation, while Rosario is also signed to appear in any further spin-offs from the web series, such as games or a TV series, which I find quite interesting – could this sort of programme making become a lower-cost way of getting your show out there to attract the attention of major production companies in the same way that online webcomics can act as a good advertisment for creators and potentially lead to a publishing deal? (source – the Hollywood Reporter)
(panels from Image’s Occult Crimes Taskforce, art by Tony Shasteen)
Fri, Aug 17, 2007
Film, TV and radio