Ken F. Levin has enlisted Michael De Luca, Jason Netter and Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Prods. to help independently finance and produce an adaptation of Garth Ennis’ apocalyptic horror comicbook series CROSSED before shopping it to distributors. Ennis wrote the screenplay himself.
Obviously, KICK-ASS is the model that CROSSED is trying to replicate. That flick was independently financed after no studio wanted to touch it. Of course, Lionsgate eventually came in and snatched up the rights (after it was completed) and now it looks like it’s going to be a smash hit.
So what’s CROSSED all about?
Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares – and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment, when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you, when everyone you love has died screaming in agony – What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed.
So it’s in the vein of THE CRAZIES or Stephen King’s “Cell” (and about two hundred other stories). Still, I’m always down for one of these, and I bet you are too…
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