Aqualad Graphic Novel Adapted For HBO Max
Deadline reports that HBO Max plans to adapt the DC Comics graphic novel You Brought Me The Ocean as a dramedy TV series. Charlize Theron (The Old Guard) is executive producing under her Denver & Delilah Films banner. AJ Dix, Beth Kono and Andrew Haas are also producing for D&D.
The book, by Alex Sanchez and Julie Maroh, is an alt take on the Kaldur'ahm version of Aqualad. It spotlights Jake Hyde, a closeted young man who is afraid of swimming after his father drowned. Though his family has moved to the desert of New Mexico Jake feels compelled to pursue a life in Miami. Strange blue markings on his skin have him emerging super powers as well has his repressed sexual identity.
Mercy Sparx Film Hires Writer
It has been over a year since we've heard anything new about MGM's feature film version of the Devil's Due comic Mercy Sparx. Now, Deadline reports that Laura Kosann has been tapped to pen the adaptation. Kosaan is said to be a rising star, as the recipient of the Academy Nicholl fellowship, with two of her scripts hitting the 2021 Black List. She replaces Nick Shafir who was the screenwriter on the project since late 2020.
The comic, created by Josh Blaylock, details a demon sent to Earth on a mission, but finds herself in a moral quandry over completing it.
