Universal is developing David Schulner’s Image comic book series Clone as a feature film.  Schulner’s saga of a doctor who suddenly becomes the target of numerous younger, stronger, cloned versions of himself was previously in development as a TV series by NBC (see “NBC/Universal Developing Skybound’s Clone”).  After NBC passed on the project, the SyFy cable net grabbed it in 2014 (see “Ronin, Letter 44, Pax Romana, and Clone”), only to reject a pilot script that the network thought was too close to the plot of the BBC series Orphan Black, which debuted in 2013.

So now, according to The Tracking-Board.com, Universal is developing Schulner’s Clone, which ran for 20 issues from 2012-2014 under Image’s Skybound imprint, as a feature film.  Rather than fuel a TV series, Universal is hoping the four Clone graphic novel collections will form the basis for a feature film franchise.  But this is very “early days” in the development of Clone as a film franchise with the producers just beginning their search for a writer to craft a treatment for the first installment.