Having helmed the blockbuster Spider-Man trilogy for Sony Pictures, filmmaker Sam Raimi is set to produce a superhero flick for Disney. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the house of mouse has picked up The Transplants, a pitch from writers Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson (Not Another Teen Movie). Raimi will produce the action-adventure pic through Stars Road Ent., which he founded with Josh Donen.
The Transplants is described as a four-quadrant ensemble superhero story with a comedic bent, but little is known about the plot. Epstein and Jacobson were reportedly developing it as a comic book, but Disney exec Kristin Burr saw feature film potential when Stars Road exec Russell Hollander brought it to the studio.
Raimi, who launched his career with the Evil Dead franchise, has returned to horror in the director’s chair with Drag Me to Hell for Universal. Over the weekend, he thrilled fans by showing footage from the movie at Comic-Con. Epstein and Jacobson most recently wrote the action-comedy Crash Test Dummies for 20th Century Fox’s Barry Josephson, and also directed and co-wrote the upcoming Extreme Movie, a Michael Cera vehicle to be released by the Weinstein’s Dimension.
