According to the Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rosenberg's Platinum Studios has signed with AMG (Artists Management Group), a top Hollywood agency that will oversee the packaging of Rosenberg's catalog of comic book characters for television, film, and new media projects. In addition the Reporter states that Rosenberg will return to comic publishing indirectly at least by packaging for other publishers some twenty-odd titles that will appear as comic mini-series or graphic novels under the editorship of Lee Nordling.
Rosenberg, who published the original Men In Black comic under his Malibu Comics imprint, helped develop the material into a feature film that starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and earned over $250 million at the U.S. box office. A sequel, with the same core creative team in place, is set to start filming this June. Other Platinum projects in development include: Million Dollar Heroes, a buddy comedy based on the Macroman and Gearhead comics, Ghosting, a horror film for Dimension Pictures, and Nathan Never, which is based on a European comic property.
Platinum Studios is also packaging a line of comics and graphic novels which will be published by various existing comic publishers in a variety of formats including three and four-issue mini-series and forty-eight and sixty-four-page graphic novels. Editor Lee Nordling will oversee the packaging of Platinum's comic material which includes: Age of Kings by Andrew Foley, Alien Circus by Dave Roman and Vincent Deporter, Boxavo Tan and His Adventures on Planet Earth by Bob Keenan and Rich Larson, Cowboys & Aliens, Million Dollar Heroes, and Nuclear Family by Fred Van Lente, Crimefighter and Superhero High by Brian Augustyn, Crossing Over by Danny Fingeroth, Ghosting by Faye Perozich, Guilty, Socorro, and Paladins by Steven Grant, Human Factor by Scott O. Brown, Illegal Aliens by Rob Moran, Indestructible Man by Andrew Osborne and Arnie Gordon, Jaunt by Dean Motter, The Proxy by Nat Gertier, Secret Identities by Marv Wolfman, Scott Roberts, and Will Blyberg, and Sun & Moon by Janet Harvey. According to the Reporter, these comics will be solicited in 2002, once all the materials are in house.
