Variety is reporting that Top Cow Productions, Arclight Films and Platinum Studios are teaming up for a live action feature film adaptation of the Top Cow comic book series Witchblade. Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins will serve as executive producers along with Platinum Studios’ Rich Marincic. Arclight’s Gary Hamilton and Nigel Odell are producing along with Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.
The Witchblade saga centers around a jewel-encrusted gauntlet that is presented to one chosen female in each generation. It began as a Top Cow comic book in 1995, which has now been translated into 21 languages and distributed in 55 countries resulting in sales of over 100 million copies of various Witchblade comic books. Earlier this year Top Cow re-released the first 160-page, full color Witchblade trade paperback collection with a cover price of just $9.99 providing an excellent jumping-on place for new readers.
A made-for-TV movie produced in 2000 led to a two-year run for a Witchblade TV series on the TNT cable network. The property’s most recent screen incarnation was an anime series produced by Gonzo in
Arclight Films CEO Gary Hamilton told Variety, “This property is the cornerstone of our upcoming production and sales slate. We hope to be able to start production in September.”
