Vanquish Motion Pictures Picks Up DevaShard

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Vanquish Motion Pictures Picks Up DevaShard

Source:Vanquish Motion Pictures

September 18, 2009

The fantasy/epic graphic novel series "DevaShard" is slicing its way to the silver screen.

Vanquish Motion Pictures and its toppers Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta won out a long and fierce bidding war that ignited after Hong Kong-based Fluid Comics debuted the novel at San Diego's Comic-Con.

Moving quickly on the property, Douglas and Gupta will produce and co-write the script with pen pal Heather Kenealy, from a screen treatment by Kevin Grevioux, co-creator of the "Underworld" franchise, who has just been tapped to adapt the 25 issue book, as well as exec produce.

The epic tale of "DevaShard," inspired by Asian mythology and crafted by Fluid Comic's Zen, Keith Burns and Johnny Tam, centers on two forsaken sons, one born of darkness, the other of light, struggling to find their place in a grim world riddled with corrupt kingdoms, cursed demons and terrifying magic. The "DevaShard" series is published by Fluid Comics seniors Simon Squibb and Helen Griffiths and has been met with rave reviews since its Asia release.

"The densely diverse world and characters which DevaShard possesses is just too damn cool not to be seen on screen," said Douglas.

"Not only is the cover art by Frank Cho and Simon Bisley amazing, but the book's stylized visuals and east-meets-west flare are seriously insane," Gupta added.

Currently, Douglas and Gupta are also producing the globe-trotting video game adventure franchise "Broken Sword" with Radar Pictures while Grevioux is hot off setting up his own comic book creations, "The Pale Horseman" and "I, Frankenstein."

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Posted by: DACMAN on September 18, 2009 at 02:47:30

Seriously? They are making ANYTHING comic related now! Has anyone even heard of this comic before? It sounds pretty generic too. Nothing new or interesting at all.

Posted by: Red mask on September 18, 2009 at 03:02:08

It doesn't matter if it's not popular or not. The movie license might have been cheaper, or maybe somebody really saw potential in the concept.

Posted by: Spencer on September 18, 2009 at 03:06:18

Actually the comic is based on the tragic hero from one of the most famous pieces of Asian mythology, a 10,000 year old text that amazingly is still relatively unknown in the West.

The comic itself is the world's first collaboration between artists who have worked on top American titles and artists who have worked on top Hong Kong / Chinese titles. As a result the artwork is unique, using both strong, clearly defined and focussed lines, but at the same time having a painterly brush-stroke style colouring finish.

Posted by: Batzarro: The Best Geek Ever! on September 18, 2009 at 03:07:09

Enorabuena! Hopefully this means you'll get lots of xclusives, yes?

Posted by: Lobo on September 18, 2009 at 06:21:09

Yay Dew! I remember talking about this with you in the Wash!

Posted by: AJx on September 18, 2009 at 07:20:07

I have never read the comic but apparently it is inspired by the tale of Karna from the Mahabharata, 1 of the 2 main epics of indian literature, the other being Ramayana. In the Mahabaharata Karna was the illegitimate son of Kunti, who went on to marry the King of Hastinapur. Kunti was given the gift of bearing sons of gods. Karna was the son of the sun god, as a unmarried woman she abandoned Karna who would then be raised by a charioteer. Kunti would then have 3 more sons 1 of which was Arjun, son of Indra king of the demi gods. When they had grown up, Karna and Arjun would battle, not realising they were half brothers.

The Mahabharata is a long story with a lot of sub stories. Just thought I'd Share a bit of background

Posted by: just to clarify on September 18, 2009 at 07:34:31

Although technically it is 'Asian' mythology, it is more Indian mythology, directly part of the Hindu religion.

Posted by: eddie on September 18, 2009 at 12:45:27

Sooooo not interested, and I agree with DACMAN. YES it does seem that they will make any comic into a movie!!! Gotham Chopra and Virgin Comics attempted this topic and failed, not because the comics were not good, it's because no one bought them!!!!

Posted by: the fire fly II on September 19, 2009 at 13:30:48

Posted by: DACMAN on September 18, 2009 at 02:47:30

Seriously? They are making ANYTHING comic related now! Has anyone even heard of this comic before? It sounds pretty generic too. Nothing new or interesting at all.

Completely agreed. It's like there is big hat with paper in it and all the paper has comic names written on them and they just randomly pick from it.

Posted by: anon on September 20, 2009 at 19:29:09

"Although technically it is 'Asian' mythology, it is more Indian mythology, directly part of the Hindu religion."

Indian mythology is asian mythology, as india is part of asia.

Furthermore, the lands that made up historical india are no longer confined to the political boundaries of present-day India (Nepal, the only Hindu sovereign state, Sri Lanka, etc.) and so asian would be correct.

Finally, these tales are not just confined to the Indian subcontinent -- go to Thailand or Java and watch the reinactments of the Ramayana.

So yes, 'Asian' is correct.

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