What does "Thor," the upcoming Marvel Studios film directed by Kenneth Branagh, have in common with a horde of vicious vampires? Not too much — except for shared screenwriters, of course.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz — the scribes behind the Norse God of Thunder's eventual big screen debut — have set their sights on yet another comic book adaptation, this time in the form of "Damn Nation" for Paramount Pictures.
The writing duo will adapt the Dark Horse Comics miniseries alongside Dark Horse Entertainment's Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg, who are producing the film. Series writer Andrew Cosby and Ross Ritchie of Boom Studios are executive producing.
"Damn Nation" tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic world in which the United States has been abandoned following an attack from "inhuman nocturnal predators." The miniseries, penned by the aformentioned Crosby and illustrated by Jason Shawn Alexander, focuses on a group of survivors after the American government is relocated to London, where scientists attempt to solve the crisis.
The Dark Horse adaptation is just the latest in a string of vampire franchises leaping from written page to film reel. One can't go anywhere these days without hearing murmurs of "Twilight" and "True Blood," while even the comic book community is hit by the bloodthirsty pandemic in the form of "Priest," the manga adaptation starring Cam Gigandet of "Twilight" and Stephen Moyer of "True Blood."
That's not a knock on the vampire genre by any means — if nothing else, "Damn Nation" has the best title of all of them so far. I'm certainly looking forward to this one.
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