Platinum Studios and Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures have teamed up to produce a feature film based on the Top Cow comic-book property Magdalena. Uber producer Hurd (Aeon Flux, The Terminator) and Platinum Studios chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will serve as producers on the religious-themed film, which is being penned by Kevin Taft.
The Magdalena comics have been translated into 26 languages in 55 countries. The movie will center on a young woman named Patience, who discovers that she is part of a lineage of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene, an important figure in the life of Jesus Christ. Patience must accept her destiny in time to save the world from a supernatural evil in this present-day action-adventure yarn, which draws on elements of biblical history much like Dan Brown’s hugely successful novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Platinum Studios signed a pact in 2004 to develop Top Cow’s comic library for film, television, and other media. Platinum and Top Cow properties currently set up at major studios include Cowboys and Aliens at Sony, Unique at Disney, Mal Chance at Miramax, The Darkness at Dimension, Wanted at Universal, Inferno at Warner Bros., Rising Stars at MGM and Fathom at Fox.
Comic creator and Top Cow Prods. CEO Marc Silvestri (Witchblade, Darkness) will serve as exec producer on Magdalena. The film’s development will be overseen for Rosenberg and Hurd, along with Valhalla’s exec VP Gary Ventimiglia and VP of production and development Steve Emery, and Platinum Studios’ director of development Aaron Severson and director of production Jay Burns. Top Cow Productions’ president Matt Hawkins will co-produce.
Rosenberg, who was instrumental in bringing the Men In Black comic franchise to the big screen, is currently working with Hurd to develop Atlantis Rising as a film franchise. Magdalena scribe Taft was recently signed to pen New Line Cinema’s Alone.
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