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Kitamura, Brix Board Magdalena Adaptation
Source:Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios
July 22, 2009


Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures and Platinum Studios, Inc., an entertainment company that controls an international library of more than 5,600 comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media and Top Cow Productions, an entertainment company specializing in building intellectual properties through comic book and graphic novel publication, have attached Ryuhei Kitamura to direct and Holly Brix to write the feature film Magdalena, based on Top Cow's comic book character.

Kitamura previously directed Midnight Meat Train for Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment, and he has directed numerous Japanese films including Godzilla: Final Wars, Love Death, Sky High and Azumi among many others.

Brix previously wrote The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations released in January by Lionsgate and After Dark Films, adapted thriller The Lost Girls for MTV Films with Michelle Manning producing, rewrote Smooth Operator at Warner Bros for Jerry Weintraub Productions, and wrote Mile Zero set up at Phoenix Pictures with Marcel Langenegger directing and Milla Jovovich starring.

Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios' Chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg are set to produce. Top Cow's CEO Marc Silvestri ("Witchblade," Darkness) would serve as executive producer as would former Universal Pictures senior executive Randy Greenberg of The Greenberg Group, who helped negotiate the deal. Matt Hawkins, President of Top Cow Productions, is set to co-produce.

"Both Kitamura and Brix bring very unique visions to 'Magdalena,'" said Hurd. "Kitamura's visual style coupled with Brix imaginative narrative will truly make 'Magdalena' a compelling film on screen," added Hurd.

"We have wanted to work with Kitamura for some time and his appetite for the material is infectious," said Rosenberg. "Brix has been on our radar, and we are thrilled that she has agreed to be a part of this project."

"Magdalena is a very complex but visually stunning world and we believe that Kitamura and Brix are the right talents to bring this to life," said Silvestri.

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Posted by: jaymes_e06 on July 22, 2009 at 02:07:51

Yay finnally some infor on this! I don't know about the director Ryuhei Kitamura. I've heard good things about Midnight Meat Train though so I'll give it a shot. NEVER heard of the screenwriter though.


Posted by: Peter Griffin on July 22, 2009 at 02:13:15

Is this going to be CGI or Live Action?


Posted by: Impersonated celebrity on July 22, 2009 at 02:15:48

She kicks ass when she fights the Darkness. I wonder who she shall fight? I normally hate religion but...The property is badass. I dont know why they trying to advertise it as her as a redeemer. When she mostly just beats the crap out of bad guys.


Posted by: Danny Boy on July 22, 2009 at 05:42:24

What a flop that'll be


Posted by: Lobo on July 22, 2009 at 06:50:46

I will have to check out the director, but I'm very glad there is movement on this. Magdalena can be such an awesome movie, and Dewan is a great fit.


Posted by: nelson on July 22, 2009 at 07:04:15

This guy directed Versus that is all that needs to be said looking forward to this


Posted by: Lobo on July 22, 2009 at 08:20:44

BTW anyone else find it funyn we get this news exactly one year to the day after Dewan and Goss were first announced?


Posted by: Andy on July 22, 2009 at 10:15:33

"The Magdelena character, which first appeared in 1998, is a descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. She has the ability to see into the human heart to give people a choice to redeem their sins."

Not only is this movie going to crash and burn at the box office, it also opposes the very meaning of Jesus' mission: to be our Redeemer. Humans *cannot* redeem themselves; that was the whole point of his coming.


Posted by: Impersonated celebrity on July 22, 2009 at 10:57:50

"
Not only is this movie going to crash and burn at the box office, it also opposes the very meaning of Jesus' mission: to be our Redeemer. Humans *cannot* redeem themselves; that was the whole point of his coming.
"

Well that worked 2 thousand years ago. You honestly do not think everyones sins NOW are still taken away? NO NO NO that was just people at the time and people who are born now. What about the people who start sinning? She will take away your sins...or she will cut your throat!


Posted by: petrefax on July 22, 2009 at 12:13:31

Magdalena was kinda created to cash in on the bad girl craze that came in comics with the mid to late 90's. But I actually enjoyed the comic but yeah not much redeeming but the whole religious aspect did set her apart from all the bad girls that were running around with comics although I don't think she was nearly as popular as fellow top cow heroine Sara Pezzini aka the Witchblade. As stated above by impersonated celebrity. She beats up and kills badguys.


Posted by: Madcap on July 22, 2009 at 22:29:28

WHy keep making crap movies about comics no one has ever heard of?


Posted by: Film Ninja on July 23, 2009 at 13:11:17

She's just as trashy as Witchblade..simply pathetic that anyone would care.


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