Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Secret Weapons #0. Written by Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Lights Out), with art by Adam Pollina (X-Force, Angel: Revelations) and colors by David Baron (Divinity, Eternity), this one-shot showcases how a rigid visual…
Valiant Comics’ Secret Weapons was one of last year’s most visually striking superhero comics. Now, the book’s creative team reunites for a March one-shot delving into the backstory of Owen Cho, a superhuman who can conjure objects out of thin air, but can’t choose what he pulls from the ether. Secret Weapons: Owen’s…
J.J. Abrams is the latest Hollywood producer to stick his hand straight into the anime-to-live-action woodchipper, with Variety reporting that the Star Wars: Episode IX director has signed on to guide a movie based on last year’s anime sensation Your Name into American theaters. Eric Heisserer, who earned an Oscar…
Sandra Bullock is the latest big-name actress to sign on for some small-scale film-making at Netflix, with Variety reporting that the Oscar-winner has joined the cast of Susanne Bier’s Bird Box. Bier—who recently scored an Emmy for her work on The Night Manager for AMC—will direct the film from a script by Eric…
Bram Stoker’s character Abraham Van Helsing has been presented onscreen in a number of different flavors (and with some varying first names) over the years. He’s been a genial academic, a boisterous obsessive, a badass monster hunter, and soon, a female badass monster hunter. The latest iteration of the character will…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman has finally settled on a screenwriter. According to The Hollywood Reporter, horror scribe Eric Heisserer—whose resume is filled with genre reboots, remakes, and sequels like A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Thing, and Final Destination 5—has…
Universal has announced the writers for its Van Helsing reboot, one of the mummy-hunting cornerstones of the planned film franchise the studio’s been building around its famous stable of cinematic monsters. The new film—which sounds like it’s going to be wholly separate from the elaborate,…
