10 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Have Nothing To Do With Marvel Or DC
8. Descender
Cinema loves sad robots. Cinema loves sad people in space. So Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen's recent Image series about a sad robot boy in space was bound to get the execs' chequebooks in a tizzy. Sony bought the movie rights for Descender before the first issue had even hit the stands, so impressed they were by the central premise. If they can bring some of Nguyen's gorgeous visuals to life, too, then they're onto a winner. So far the comic has been a slow burn, opening with the aforementioned artificial boy TIM-21 awakening on a space station that's been torn apart, leaving him the only living cosmic constituent left standing. Well, as alive as a robot can ever be. Descender promises to expand in scope exponentially as it goes on, becoming a full-blown space opera epic. Apparently TIM-21 will go on to play a key role in discovering the origins of a race of planet-decimating robots, but in the meantime, there's plenty of opportunities for the kid (who looks a bit like the robots from Steven Spielberg's AI, if they had better special effects) to mope around and question his place in the universe. A cross between hard sci-fi and fun Star Wars genre fare, if done right.
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