The Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd, with Voltage Pictures (
Dallas Buyers Club, Hurt Locker) will produce a new film based on the
bande dessinee Sebastian X, by Michelangelo La Neve and Stuart Immonen, according to
The Hollywood Reporter. Director Martin Campbell (
Mask, Legend of Zorro, Casino Royale, Green Lantern) is attached, with Bill Marsili writing a script.
The character Sebastian X is a notorious terrorist whose memory is implanted into an elite cop after an injury to enable him to infiltrate the terrorist group.
Published in France by Les Humanoides Associes,
Sebastian X has not yet been released by Humanoids in English.