Platinum Studios is working with producer Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures to develop a feature film based on the Platinum comicbook Final Orbit, according to Daily Variety. Hurd and Platinum Studios CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce the pic from a script by Russell Gewirtz (Righteous Kill, Inside Man). The comic is slated to debut in early 2009.
In Final Orbit, lottery winners travel to a newly completed international space station, only to have their dream vacation turn into a nightmare when damage to the facility leaves them trapped without the aide of trained astronauts. The film will be exec produced by Randy Greenberg and Valhalla’s Gary Ventimiglia.
After successfully launching the Men in Black property with Sony Pictures, Platinum Studios has two sci-fi feature films based on its comics set up at DreamWorks’Atlantis Rising and Cowboys and Aliens. The company recently teamed with Hyde Park Ent. to produce Dead of Night, an adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s cult-favorite Italian comic book series Dylan Dog, with Superman Returns star Brandon Routh in the lead role, and is also working with Disney to adapt its Unique comic. Valhalla is a producer on Marvel Studios’ The Incredible Hulk, which opens June 13.
