Variety is reporting that Image Comics, Nonplayer has been picked up by Warner Bros. for a possible feature film.
“Nonplayer” is a sci-fi/fantasy story about Dana Stevens, a brilliant young woman who retreats from the dismal workaday world of the future into the digital fantasy realm of Jarvath, where she’s a fearless warrior.
It’s interesting to note that the first issue went on sale in April, and we’ve yet to see issue #2 arrive.
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Would love to see this one in film! Read a book on World of Warcraft and its influence on notions of culture and identity recently and reviewed it here (http://phantasmavore.blogspot.com/2011/08/book-review-digital-culture-play-and.html). The premise is just fascinating and I think it could easily carry a film somewhere along the lines of an Inception or the Matrix.
Yeah, with only one issue, the studio will still have enough space to mess with it.
Want to make a Superman movie? You do it wrong and you’ve got millions of fans telling you how you did it wrong. Make a Nonplayer movie and get it wrong? No one will know.