Graphic novel series A Vicious Circle already tells a cinematic tale — following time - traveling assassins chasing each other through the past and hereafter — and now the title is taking its logical next step . It ’ll become a film bring forth byRyan Coogler(Black Panther ) and accommodate by Mattson Tomlin , who create the original novels with artist Lee Bermejo , and is also the showrunner onNetflix ’s Terminator Zeroanimated series .
This news program comes fromthe Hollywood Reporter , which mention the undertaking is a two - hander enticingly dubbed “ John Wick meets Looper . ” The Eisner - nominated A Vicious Circle ’s official description deliver that out : “ Shawn Thacker is a trained assassin from the future tense who assay revenge on the only other Isle of Man with his affliction — each life they take military group them both to travel between vastly different past and next eras . Spanning from twenty-second century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond , the two deadly rivals are locked in a struggle of wills that span millions of years , all to neuter the course of chronicle . ”
Both the big names involved are very engaged at the moment — Tomlin ’s Terminator Zero debut August 29 and he also co - wrote The Batman II script with Matt Reeves ; Coogler , of course , hasthat mystifying maybe - vampire moviein the works with Michael B. Jordan — but we ’re look forward to this creative squad - up whenever it happens .
Cover art for A Vicious Circle graphic novel.Image: Boom Studios
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