Top Cow’s Crosshair comic, one of the titles in the publisher’s upcoming Pilot Season that was optioned by Mandeville Films at last year’s Comic-Con (see “Mandeville to Adapt Crosshair”) has been picked up by Summit Entertainment, the powerhouse mini-studio behind the Twilight movies and Red. 

 

Summit recently received $750 million in financing, which will allow the studio to produce a number of new films, and Crosshair is one of the first projects that Summit has announced.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, the white hot producing team behind the Oscar-winning boxing movie The Fighter, are producing Crosshair with Morgan Foehl writing the screenplay.

 

Crosshair, which is written by Jeff Katz and Marc Silvestri, is the saga of a CIA assassin turned suburban dad who discovers that he has been programmed to kill the President. He has to uncover the conspiracy before someone triggers his program.