The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films has snatched feature film rights to Image Comics’ O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce, a comic-book series co-created and co-written by actress Rosario Dawson (Clerks II, Sin City). According to Daily Variety, Dawson will serve as a producer on the pic in addition to playing the lead role, a New York City police detective who gets recruited to hunt down supernatural forces.
Co-created by scribe David Atchinson and illustrator Tony Shasteen, O.C.T. features the illustrated likeness of Dawson, who was reportedly inspired to start her own comic book after working with famed graphic novelist Frank Miller on the big-screen version of his Sin City. She also grew up around comics since her uncle is former Marvel illustrator Gus Vasquez.
Dawson is set to return in Miller’s and Robert Rodriguez’s sequel to Sin City, and can next be seen in Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s horror throwback, Grindhouse. That film is also being released by Dimension.
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