{"id":15398,"date":"2017-12-15T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=15398"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:48:42","slug":"john-wick-director-tackling-ed-brubaker-comic-kill-or-be-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/john-wick-director-tackling-ed-brubaker-comic-kill-or-be-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;John Wick&#8217; Director Tackling Ed Brubaker Comic &#8216;Kill or Be Killed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"blog-post-deck\">\n<div class=\"blog-post-summary\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15401\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/john-wick-director-tackling-ed-brubaker-comic-kill-or-be-killed\/kmfsm37qipsx-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?fit=1224%2C792\" data-orig-size=\"1224,792\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kmfsm37qipsx\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?fit=678%2C439\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15401 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?resize=300%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?resize=300%2C194 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?resize=768%2C497 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C663 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kmfsm37qipsx-1.jpg?w=1224 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Chad Stahelski is reteaming with his &#8216;Wick&#8217; producer Basil Iwanyk for the project.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<article class=\"blog-post-body js-fitvids-content\">Director Chad Stahelski is teaming up with his\u00a0<em>John Wick<\/em>\u00a0producer Basil Iwanyk to bring to the big screen\u00a0<em>Kill or Be Killed<\/em>, a comic book from\u00a0<em>Winter Soldier<\/em>\u00a0creator Ed Brubaker.Dan Casey, who previously adapted the Brubaker comic\u00a0<em>Incognito<\/em>, now set up at Columbia, is attached to write the script.<\/p>\n<p>Iwanyk will produce with Erica Lee of the duo&#8217;s Thunder Road, the company behind awards contender\u00a0<em>Wind River<\/em>\u00a0as well as the\u00a0<em>Wick\u00a0<\/em>action movies. Jeff Waxman (<em>mother!<\/em>) is also producing. Brubaker will act as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>The project tells of a depressed college student who attempts suicide. He survives due to unlikely events but is soon visited by a demon who explains that he was the one who spared the student&#8217;s life. But there&#8217;s a price to be paid: Going forward, the young man will be allowed to live one month for every person he kills.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Phillips draws the comic, which is currently being published by Image Comics.<\/p>\n<p>Brubaker is the prolific comics author perhaps best known for his work that revitalized\u00a0<em>Captain America<\/em>\u00a0in the 21st\u00a0century and also reintroduced the character of Bucky Barnes as assassin Winter Soldier, who was then featured in Marvel&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Captain America<\/em>\u00a0movies.<\/p>\n<p>Brubaker often focuses on the crime and thriller genres and in recent years has garnered acclaim for his comics such as\u00a0<em>The Fade Out<\/em>, a Hollywood noir, and\u00a0<em>Fatale<\/em>, a supernatural noir. He is repped by UTA and Katz Golden.<\/p>\n<p>Casey wrote\u00a0<em>Kin<\/em>, a crime thriller produced by Shawn Levy that Lionsgate is releasing in summer 2018. He is repped by CAA and Writ Large.<\/p>\n<p>Stahelski, repped by\u00a0WME and Gang Tyre, is the stunt coordinator and second unit director who put his action knowledge to good use with the 2014 breakout\u00a0<em>John Wick<\/em>. He followed that up with this year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>John Wick: Chapter Two<\/em>\u00a0and is now in preproduction on\u00a0<em>John Wick: Chapter Three.<\/em>\u00a0He is also attached to direct the\u00a0<em>Highlander<\/em>\u00a0remake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedded-content embedded-content--readmore is-embed-initialized\" data-nid=\"1039305\" data-nodetype=\"blog\" data-template=\"readmore\" data-amp-enabled=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/john-wick-director-tackling-ed-brubaker-comic-kill-be-killed-1066847\">&#8216;John Wick&#8217; Director Tackling Ed Brubaker Comic &#8216;Kill or Be Killed&#8217; (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Stahelski is reteaming with his &#8216;Wick&#8217; producer Basil Iwanyk for the project. Director Chad Stahelski is teaming up with his\u00a0John Wick\u00a0producer Basil Iwanyk to bring to the big screen\u00a0Kill or Be Killed, a comic book from\u00a0Winter Soldier\u00a0creator Ed Brubaker.Dan Casey, who previously adapted the Brubaker comic\u00a0Incognito, now set up at Columbia, is attached to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-40m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14247,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/dynamite-entertainment-announces-deal-with-lionsgate-to-bring-john-wick-to-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":15398,"position":0},"title":"DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH LIONSGATE TO BRING JOHN WICK TO COMICS","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dynamite Entertainment announced today that it has made a deal with Lionsgate to publish a comic book series inspired by the studio's popular John Wick feature film. 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