Producer/writers Marc Guggenheim and Alisa Tager have formed Collider Entertainment, a company focused on the principle that intellectual property can be developed across multiple platforms for production and global distribution simultaneously.  The company plans to have multiple creators writing and directing stories for film, television, comic books, video games, and new digital media outlets.

The first two projects from Collider will originate as comic books published by Image Comics.  Utopian was created by Guggenheim and Tara Butters (Reaper, Dollhouse).  Though both Guggenheim and Butters, who are husband and wife, are writers, they have never collaborated on a writing project before.  Utopian is a superhero saga set in a world, which has suddenly become tranquil thanks to a cessation of crime, war, and famine.  The hero of Utopian attempts to discover the source of the world’s new tranquility, but his former comrades oppose his attempts to return the world to its messy normality.

The second Collider property is The Mission.  Created by the screenwriting team of Jon and Erich Hoeber (Red, Battleship, Whiteout, Montana), The Mission is a supernatural thriller about a man who receives instructions from the Angel Gabriel to commit murder.  Is he just crazy or truly inspired?

Guggenheim, who was a lawyer at a Boston firm when he snared a gig writing for David E. Kelley’s The Practice, certainly has plenty of experience writing for various different media platforms.  He is one of the writers of the Green Lantern film currently in production, and his TV credits include The Practice, Law & Order, CSI Miami, Flash Forward, Jack & Bobby, and Eli Stone, which he co-created.  In addition Guggenheim has written over 100 comic books since 2005, and also scripted a number of video games including Perfect Dark, Call of Duty 3, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Singularity.