Platinum Studios Unleashing The Weapon On To The Big Screen
Created by the co-writer of Cowboys & Aliens, the series follows a martial arts enthusiast who sets himself up as a superhero, as a means of promoting a technology to create solid objects from light that he invented.
Platinum Studios, Inc. has plans to develop their comic book series The Weapon for the big screen. Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, founder of the company and a producer on Cowboys and Aliens will act as producer on the film. Reported by Superhero Hype, The Weapon, a 2007 mini-series written by Fred Van Lente (Cowboys and Aliens, X-Men Noir), follows martial arts enthusiast Tommy Zhou, who sets himself up as a superhero, The Weapon, as a means of promoting a technology to create solid objects from light that he invented. Basing his origins on ancient Chinese legends, he finds himself under attack from a millennial old assassin cult, convinced he has unlocked an ancient mystical technique, known as 'The Way of the Weapon'. This idea to bring The Weapon to the big screen continues Platinum Studios m.o. of bringing lesser known, independent titles to film, having made film versions of the aforementioned Jon Favreau genre bending sci-wi/western and the Italian horror series Dylan Dog. They also developed the Belgian graphic novel series Jeremiah into the T.V. series of the same name, starring Luke Perry, Malcom-Jamal Warner, and Sean Astin. There is no word on a cast as of yet, though an earlier attempt to bring the property to the big screen in 2009 had Italian American actor David Henrie attached as Chinese American Zhou. I can assume there is going to be some re-writes.