{"id":5217,"date":"2012-08-21T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2012-08-21T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T20:46:35","slug":"comicbook-bloodstrike-heads-to-bigscreen-entertainment-news-exclusive-media-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/comicbook-bloodstrike-heads-to-bigscreen-entertainment-news-exclusive-media-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Comicbook &#8216;Bloodstrike&#8217; heads to bigscreen &#8211; Entertainment News, EXCLUSIVE, Media &#8211; Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vampire soldiers of &#8220;Bloodstrike&#8221; are heading for the big screen, with the comic book property set up with Adi Shankar&#8217;s 1984 Private Defense Contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Producers on the project are Shankar, &#8220;Bloodstrike&#8221; scribe Rob Liefeld and Liefeld&#8217;s manager Brooklyn Weaver (&#8220;Out of the Furnace&#8221;).<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images1.variety.com\/graphics\/photos\/_storypics2\/bloodstrike.jpg?w=678\" alt=\"\u201cBloodstrike\u201d \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liefeld&#8217;s new angle, aimed at creating a franchise appeal, focuses on a Bloodstrike unit consisting of a team of super-soldiers who have secretly been imbued with vampire blood &#8212; making them an elite strike force feared by all enemies. The property launched in 1993 via Image comics and sold over 30 million copies.<\/p>\n<p>Shankar&#8217;s shingle has tapped Dutch Southern to write an all-female riff on &#8220;The Expendables&#8221; and co-financed Joe Carnahan&#8217;s &#8220;The Grey,&#8221; Marc Forster&#8217;s &#8220;Machine Gun Preacher&#8221; and Andrew Dominik&#8217;s upcoming Brad Pitt-starrer &#8220;Killing Them Softly.&#8221; Shankar is partnered with Spencer Silna in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Liefeld (&#8220;Deadpool&#8221;) was a co-founder of Image Comics in the early 1990s, which launched with his &#8220;Youngblood&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver is the topper of Energy Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118058090\">Comicbook &#8216;Bloodstrike&#8217; heads to bigscreen &#8211; Entertainment News, EXCLUSIVE, Media &#8211; Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vampire soldiers of &#8220;Bloodstrike&#8221; are heading for the big screen, with the comic book property set up with Adi Shankar&#8217;s 1984 Private Defense Contractors. Producers on the project are Shankar, &#8220;Bloodstrike&#8221; scribe Rob Liefeld and Liefeld&#8217;s manager Brooklyn Weaver (&#8220;Out of the Furnace&#8221;). Liefeld&#8217;s new angle, aimed at creating a franchise appeal, focuses on [&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":false,"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-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-1m9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15775,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/liefeld-variant-introduces-new-character-the-pouch-to-highly-anticipated-bloodstrike-brutalists\/","url_meta":{"origin":5217,"position":0},"title":"Liefeld variant introduces new character\u2014The Pouch\u2014to highly anticipated\u00a0BLOODSTRIKE BRUTALISTS","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Image Comics is pleased to reveal a very special Rob Liefeld variant cover to the #23 issue of Liefeld\u2019s highly anticipated BLOODSTRIKE BRUTALISTS arc featuring story and artwork by Michel\u00a0Fiffe (COPRA). 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