Here's something you don't get to write everyday. Paramount Pictures have optioned the rights to the DC Comic (!) series
The Mighty. How and why is it not automatically a Warner Bros property? Well creators
Peter Tomasi and
Keith Champagne were forthright enough to keep hold of the rights to the character themselves when working with DC and can sell to whomever the hell they want. Having not read the comic, I'm relying on
Deadline to flesh it out;
The Mighty tells the story of Alpha-One, the world's most powerful super-being, who has always been a force for good, but Gabriel Cole, a cop who's life was saved by Alpha One as a child, has uncovered his hero's dark plan that will put them on a collision course of an ordinary man versus a super-man.
Ah so basically our hero is a mortal with no powers and the villain is all mighty and powerful but evil. It's kind of a reverse Superman/Lex Luthor situation and one that has plenty of story potential, I'd say. Anyone read the book? No writer or director is yet attached though we know Disruption Entertainment, Parent and Cale Boyter and Benderspink's JC Spink will produce.