{"id":15518,"date":"2018-01-29T22:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=15518"},"modified":"2018-01-29T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:14:24","slug":"despicable-me-writers-robert-kirkman-team-for-fantasy-birthright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/despicable-me-writers-robert-kirkman-team-for-fantasy-birthright\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Despicable Me&#8217; Writers, Robert Kirkman Team for Fantasy &#8216;Birthright&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"blog-post-deck\">\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/despicable-me-writers-robert-kirkman-team-for-fantasy-birthright\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright.jpg?fit=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"696,464\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright.jpg?fit=678%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/despicable-scribes-adapting-birthright.jpg?w=696&amp;ssl=1 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-post-summary\">Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan created the Image comic, which is now in development at Universal.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<article class=\"blog-post-body js-fitvids-content\">Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the writers behind the\u00a0<em>Despicable Me<\/em>\u00a0movies, are teaming up with Robert Kirkman and his Skybound Entertainment to adapt fantasy epic comic book\u00a0<em>Birthright<\/em>.The project just got set up at Universal via Skybound\u2019s first-look deal with the studio. Kirkman, who is also the creator of\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, will produce along with the company\u2019s David Alpert, Bryan Furst\u00a0and Sean Furst. Jeb Brody (<em>The Mummy, Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>) will also produce.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Andrei Bressan, the comic centers on the Rhodes family, whose young son disappears while playing outside. A year later, a grown man appears claiming to be the son and saying that he has been on another world, ushering the family on a fantastical quest to discover what really happened to their son.<\/p>\n<p><em>Birthright\u00a0<\/em>joins as the third feature project to fall under Skybound\u2019s partnership with Universal. Other titles under the deal include Robert Kirkman\u2019s long-running comic series\u00a0<em>Invincible\u00a0<\/em>and the Skybound\/Image comic series\u00a0<em>Kill the Minotaur<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul and Daurio are best known for their work in the family-friendly animation field. In addition to helping steer the\u00a0<em>Despicable<\/em>\u00a0franchise, they worked on\u00a0<em>Horton Hears a Who!\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0The Secret Life of Pets<\/em>, among a slew of others.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/despicable-me-writers-robert-kirkman-team-fantasy-birthright-1079804\">&#8216;Despicable Me&#8217; Writers, Robert Kirkman Team for Fantasy &#8216;Birthright&#8217; (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan created the Image comic, which is now in development at Universal. Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the writers behind the\u00a0Despicable Me\u00a0movies, are teaming up with Robert Kirkman and his Skybound Entertainment to adapt fantasy epic comic book\u00a0Birthright.The project just got set up at Universal via Skybound\u2019s first-look deal with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-42i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16495,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/lee-daniels-to-direct-comic-film-stealth\/","url_meta":{"origin":15518,"position":0},"title":"Lee Daniels To Direct Comic Film &#8220;Stealth&#8221;\u00a0","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"December 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Lee Daniels (\u201cThe Butler,\u201d \u201cThe Paperboy\u201d) has been set to direct the film adaptation of the upcoming superhero crime fighter comic \u201cStealth\u201d for Universal Pictures and Skybound Entertainment. 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