Variety reports that the film rights to Bill Tucci's Shi comic series, which languished at Franchise Pictures for some six years, have been picked up by producer Mimi Polk Gitlin.  Gitlin ran Ridley Scott's production company, where she produced Thelma & Louise, White Squall, and The Browning Version, before she co-founded Mandolin Entertainment.  Now she has moved on to her own Gitlin Productions and she has acquired the rights to Tucci's Shi comic series.  Kevin Bernhardt and Billy Tucci are writing the treatment and screenplay.