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Film and Television Rights to ‘Vampirella’ Sold By Dynamite With New Projects Planned
The superheroine known as Vampirella, created by Forrest J Ackerman and Trina Robbins, burst onto the scene way back in 1969, and the character made the leap to the screen with a feature film back in 1996. More recently, Vampirella has lived on in new comics released by Dynamite Entertainment, but she may soon be headed to screens both big and small.
ComicBook.com reports today that Dynamite has sold the worldwide film, television and streaming rights for the Vampirella property to Arowana Media Holdings, Inc., with the deal reportedly including “all Vampirella stories, characters and derivative works.”
CEO and Producer Mark B. Newbauer states, “We are thrilled with the opportunity to bring this amazing character to screen in a big way. Nick Barucci, founder and CEO of the prolific Dynamite Comics, is an incredible visionary with an eye for story, and a talent for integration into the zeitgeist.
“He and everyone at Dynamite have resurrected this character in a significant way over the past decade and this latest run with [Christopher] Priest feels like it’s just the beginning of her next 50 years and beyond. We are truly grateful for the faith and support of Dynamite, Nick, and their reps, including producer/manager Ford Gilmore of Illuminati Entertainment.”
From the planet Drakulon, Vampirella is a vampiric superhero who travels to Earth to hunt vampires. This puts her at odds with Dracula, responsible for creating Earth’s vampires.
Abigail Cowen (“Stranger Things,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” The Ritual) will lead the cast of psychedelic horror movie The Guide, Deadline reports this week.
James Badge Dale (13 Hours) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) will also star. Inon Shampanier directs from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier.
Deadline details, “Abigail Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (James Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
“This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat,” Inon Shampanier said in a statement to Deadline.
Stay tuned for more on The Guide as we learn it.
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