The Hollywood Reporter grabbed the scoop today, that Hollywood blacklist writer Will Simmons will be scripting Universal’s adaptation of BOOM!’s “Day Men.” Simmons wrote Murder City, a crime thriller that made the Black List in 2012. The project has Sylvain White attached to direct, Aldamisa financing, and Basil Iwanyk andBrooklyn Weaver producing. He is also wrapping up his scripting during on Defenders, Warners’ adaptation of an alien invasion book by Will McIntosh.
BOOM!’s editor-in-chief Matt Gagnon created the comic and co-wrote the comic with Michael Alan Nelson. Brian Stelfreeze draws the series. The series is a really awesome take on Vampire lore. It separates vampires into powerful families that work like the mafia. The day men are the people who keep the vampires safe during the day. They hold all the power, and of course one particular day man finds himself between the warring families.
Universal picked up the rights to Day Men in summer 2013 after releasing 2 Guns, the hit Mark Walhberg-Denzel Washington action movie also based on a Boom! book.