Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi are currently developing Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ DC series Sleeper for a movie and potentially even a film franchise. Cruise is involved in developing the film with Raimi but he may also star in it as well. Sleeper saw Criminal creators Brubaker and Phillips abandon their hard-edged drama for slapstick in this loving comics adaptation of the 1970s Woody Allen comedy film. Oh, okay, it didn;t really – actually it was about special operative Holden Carver, an agent who is impervious to pain after being attached to an alien device, sent in undercover as a sleeper agent into the villainous organisation lead by Tao from WildC.A.T.s, where, as well as masquerading as a villain his life is further complicated by falling for another of Tao’s operatives while trying to work out what side of the fence he really should be on. (via Hollywood Reporter)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008
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