{"id":39688,"date":"2017-01-03T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39688"},"modified":"2017-01-03T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T22:53:46","slug":"rob-liefelds-extreme-universe-latest-comic-book-ip-get-film-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/03\/rob-liefelds-extreme-universe-latest-comic-book-ip-get-film-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Liefeld’s EXTREME UNIVERSE Latest Comic Book IP To Get Film Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rob Liefeld co-created Deadpool<\/strong>. Deadpool <\/strong>made a bucket of money at theaters (and not made money on a lot of digital downloads<\/a>). So it would be only a matter of time before Hollywood came knocking at Mr. Liefeld’s door to see if he had any other characters he created just lying around. They did and he does-the Extreme Universe of characters.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Graham King and Fundamental Films will be working to create films from the Extreme characters,\u00a0films that will be co-produced by King,\u00a0\u00a0Liefeld and Akiva Goldsman. The agreement is rumored to be in the seven-figure range.<\/p>\n

Extreme Studios was the umbrella Liefeld used for all the characters he created after he left Marvel Comics in the mid-1990s and helped cofound Image Comics.\u00a0When Liefeld\u00a0left Image, he merged the characters with his other studio, Maximum Press, which eventually became Awesome Comics. I guess\u00a0he’s back to calling them the Extreme Universe.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0the\u00a0Deadline article:<\/p>\n

The Extreme Universe covers nine comic books, encompassing more than\u00a0100 characters that include Brigade, Bloodstrike, Cybrid, Lethal, Re-Gex, Bloodwulf, Battlestone, Baboom and Nitro-Gen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noticeably missing from that list are some of Liefeld’s more well-known creator-owned characters such as Youngblood (which has been in and out of development, with Brett Ratner at one time attached<\/a>), Supreme (which was already being shopped around Hollywood) and Avengelyne (which has a film adaptation in the works with\u00a0Goldsman producing).<\/p>\n

The article plays up the Deadpool <\/strong>angle, but to those expecting\u00a0the same\u00a0Deadpool <\/strong>quality experience, I’d like to point out that A) what made Deadpool\u00a0such an intriguing character was added after Liefeld left Marvel and B) these are characters named Baboom and Nitro-Gen.<\/p>\n

We’ll revisit this when development continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heroes such as Bloodwulf, Brigade and the Re-Gex may be coming to a theater near you.<\/div>\n

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