According to Variety, Warren Ellis' Black Summer is being developed for the big screen. Here's how the publication describes the story and it's premise:
"Summer," published by Avatar Press in 2007, centers on superhero team the Seven Guns, a group of scientist-adventurers who modified their own bodies for street-fighting in order to take back their West Coast city from a corrupt police force, criminal local government and rapacious private security forces.
That's all well and good, but what the blurb fails to mention is that all the action of the story gets underway as one of the former members of Seven Guns walks into the oval office and guns down the president and his staff on charges of war crimes. As a result, the government decides to go after all former members of the group.
The series was extremely political, and it seems based upon this blurb that whoever is developing this into a movie may be trying to put some distance between the flick and those post-9/11 themes. Plus, I mean, come on, this is Warren Ellis we're talking about. The guy's MO is pretty much shock and awe followed by thoroughly thoughtful and engaging story telling. You know, the stuff Hollywood thinks mainstream America can't handle.
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I LOVED this series when it came out. Hollywood'll probably neuter the hell out of it, but if they can find a ballsy producer who's not afraid of a HARD "R" rating, and who embraces the political angle, this could rival Watchmen. And PLEASE get a decent cast ... NO 90210/CW "pretty people."
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