MGM has optioned J. Michael Straczynski’s Top Cow comic series Rising Stars, according to Deadline.  Under the agreement, Babylon 5 creator JMS is to write the script and produce through his Studio JMS banner, according to the report.  Alex Gartner and Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment (Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, Warcraft) will also produce.

Rising Stars has been at MGM before, back in 2004 (see “Platinum to Develop Top Cow Characters for Film and TV”).  Perhaps this time will be different.

Image released the Rising Stars Compendium, which collects all 24 JMS issues of the series plus three spin-off miniseries written by Fiona Avery, last year.