Indie funny publisher are n’t bank on Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy alone to break into Hollywood ; as publisher Mike Richardson differentiate SciFi Wire , the company is attend to turn a bit of their Christian Bible into flick – and they ’re starting with a story about dead cops that return to the streets as repo men for God . Richardson told SciFi Wire ,
The most contiguous is R.I.P.D. … David Dobkin [ Wedding Crashers ] is directing . We ’re doing it over at Universal Studios . We have a keen script by [ Matt ] Manfredi and [ Phil ] Hay . R.I.P.D. stands for Rest in Peace Department . It ’s establish on a graphic novel by Peter Lenkov . It ’s about dead cops that died in the line of duty that are sent back essentially to get people who do n’t desire to add up peacefully , people who stayed behind . It ’s a lot of playfulness . … It has a few of the constituent of something like a Men in Black , except this one has real scare in it . It ’s not sort of a cartoon scare . A lot of humor , but genuine scary stuff going on .
The2003 comicwas less Men In Black and more of a retaliation tale , as RIPDetective Nick Cruz tracked down the human who killed him , but the potential for thrills , chills and most significantly box office boffo is unquestionably there . This is n’t the first time that Dark Horse has catch a foothold in the movie business ; a similar energy in the nineties give the globe The Mask , Timecop and Barb Wire – show up that the publisher ’s raw movie initiative does n’t have too gamy a prevention to try and touch . Dark Horse , Universal , In Deal[SciFi Wire ]
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