“Plutona” coming-of-age comic series to get film treatment

PanARMENIAN.Net - Waypoint Entertainment has acquired movie rights to the coming-of-age comic series “Plutona”, written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Emi Lenox, Variety reports.

“Plutona” centers on a group of kids who find the body of a famous dead superhero in the woods. Waypoint Entertainment’s Ken Kao (“The Nice Guys”) will produce with partner Dan Kao and Addictive Pictures’ Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder under their first-look deal.

Image Comics released “Plutona,” a five-issue limited series, in September.

Lemire is the author of the Essex County Trilogy, “Sweet Tooth,” “The Nobody” and a run of “Animal Man.” Lenox is known for her diary comic “Emitown.”

Waypoint Entertainment acquired the rights in April to two Mark Millar properties, “American Jesus” and “Supercrooks,” which Ken Kao and Dan Kao will produce with Addictive Pictures. It is also in pre-production on the sci-fi thriller “Tau,” directed by Federico D’ Alessandro and starring Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein.

Waypoint’s slate includes “The Nice Guys,” Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles” starring Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike; Martin Zandvliet’s “The Outsider” starring Jared Leto; and Gus Van Sant’s “The Sea of Trees,” starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts.