Vigilante Entertainment Preps for Black Summer

There’s a new comic book-to-film production house working on bringing some lesser known properties to the screen: Vigilante Entertainment, headed up by Hicham Benkirane, formerly in charge of the brilliantly titled Les Humanoides Associes.

While Vigilante has rights to many Les Humanoides Associes properties such as Miss: Better Living Through Crime, The Book of Jack and Fragile (a zombie love story), the first project they’re setting their sights on is an adaptation of Warren Ellis’ Black Summer. Ellis was also responsible for Red, which is going into production over at Summit Films with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. According to Variety, the plot of Summer is pretty sweet:

“[Black Summer centers on] superhero team the Seven Guns, a group of scientist-adventurers who modified their own bodies for street-fighting in order to take back their West Coast city from a corrupt police force, criminal local government and rapacious private security forces.”

What’s less sweet? Ryne Douglas Pearson has been hired to adapt the graphic novel into script form. Pearson has written two films: Knowing and Mercury Rising, both of which have interesting ideas but are critically flawed. However, he’s never really gotten his chance to shine, so hopefully he can bat Black Summer out of the park.