Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz is tackling a film adaptation of Talent, a 2006 comic book series from Boom! Studios.
Boom! Studios comic book series Talent has become the focus of Hollywood talent looking to adapt it to film for quite some time. However, in the most auspicious development of a decade-long process, it appears that Talent has come into the orbit of a major producer behind an array of lucrative films series’. Now, the conceptual supernatural series with a tinge of superhero elements, has its best chance to arrive on the big screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, producer Neal Moritz, under his Original Film banner, will team with Boom! Studios to adapt their comic series Talent. The limited-run title, published back in 2006, was created by authors Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski, illustrated by Paul Azaceta. The story – a contemporaneous byproduct of television’s answers-craving Lost craze – centers on young college professor Nicholas Dane, who emerged as the sole survivor of a plane crash. However, the apparent miracle comes with the caveat of psychic abilities, allowing Nicholas to channel the talents of the 148 who perished in the crash. Eventually, the phenomenon makes him the target a killer conspiracy...
