Netflix has extended its multi-year partnership with Dark Horse Entertainment, where Dark Horse gives the streamer first look at IP for film and television. Their active development slate includes “Bang!” a film starring Idris Elba and Curtis Gwinn’s “Mind MGMT”.
“Bang!” based on the comic series of the same name by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres and will be directed by David Leitch. In the film, when a terrorist cult sets out to start the apocalypse with a series of novels meant to blow their readers away, the world’s most famous spy is sent to find the author responsible and to kill. Kindt and Zak Olkewicz serve as writers. Producers include Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse; Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North; and Idris Elba.
“Mind MGMT” is also based on comics by Kindt. The series will follow a young woman who stumbles upon a secret mind control program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic adverts, talking dolphins and seemingly immortal stalkers, as she tries to find the man who was MIND MGMT’s greatest success – and biggest failure destructive. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees? Executive producers include Gwinn as well as Richardson and Goldberg for Dark Horse.
Previously announced Dark Horse projects in development with Netflix include “Revenge Inc.,” a drama series centered on a secret, underground company specializing in revenge operative produced by showrunner Matthew Arnold , Richardson, Goldberg and Chris Tongue, as well as action thriller “Lady Killer” about a 1950s housewife leading a secret life as a highly trained assassin for hire, starring and produced by Blake Lively, based on the comic series by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich.
“The Umbrella Academy,” “Polar,” “Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles” and “Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness” are among the Dark Horse projects already released by Netflix.
