Sony buys movie rights to yet-unreleased sci-fi comic Descender
It looks like Mark Millar isn’t the only guy who can sell the movie rights to a comic book that hasn’t been released yet. According to Deadline, Sony has just picked up the rights to make an adaptation of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s Descender—the first issue of which comes out in March. The book comes from Image Comics, and it’s “a sprawling space opera odyssey” about a robot boy named TIM-21 who has some kind of robot DNA that has something to do with bad robots killing people all over the universe. In other words, comic books! Lemire and Nguyen seem happy about the deal, saying in a statement that they “know that [Sony’s] film translation will do justice to the original comics.”