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No Mans Land, Szymon Kudraskis well-received Image Comics limited series, is taking a step into big screen territory.
The property is in development as a film from producer Jason Bermans A/Vantage Pictures, as well as Kudraski and Jon Levin’s Sustainable Imagination.
Producer Berman released Spike Lees Highest 2 Lowest last year, while Jon Levin is in the Oscar race with the doc short All the Empty Rooms.
Per the logline: When the body of a woman is discovered frozen into this icy no-man’s land, the already fragile geopolitical balance between these two countries threatens to collapse. With nuclear tensions intensifying, a veteran FBI agent and an ambitious new female KGB operative are forced into an uneasy alliance to solve the murder — before the ice melts and a global conflict is triggered. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories Movies Why It Took 35 Years for Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest' to Hit Theaters Business Rob Liefeld's 'Youngblood' No. 1 Passes $500,000 in Sales, New Edition Planned
The book, published via Image under Kudraskis One Man Art imprint, completed its four-issue run late last year, and has earned comparisons to David Fincher films such as Zodiac and SE7EN.
The book takes inspiration from the Diomede Islands, a pair of islands in the being straight between Alaska and Siberia.
When I first learned about the Diomede Islands, one question immediately emerged: What if a body was found in the exact middle of the ice bridge — technically belonging to no one, outside any clear jurisdiction? noted Kudraski in a statement. This location demanded a story. Two villages on opposite sides of a frozen strait. From a geopolitical standpoint, two rival nuclear superpowers connected by a thin layer of ice for only three months each year — almost poetic in how truces can be as fragile as ice itself.” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid","mid-article2","mid-articleX"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });
Kudraski, known for Spawn, Action Comics and The Punisher, created, wrote and provided the art for No Mans Land. He worked with editor Tom Williams and letterer DC Hopkins, with a trade paperback due out in April.
For the book, he looked through more than 100 years of newspaper archives, and discovered the most disturbing and mysterious activity occurred during the Cold War — reports of missing people, unexplained deaths, and events that were never fully accounted for.”
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