Avengelyne (D: Wilde) S: Robbie -- based on the comic
04-30-24 | 11:51 AM
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Avengelyne (D: Wilde) S: Robbie -- based on the comic
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating to close a seven figure film rights deal for Avengelyne — Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld’s signature comic book creation about an angel who fights the forces of evil. Most of the deals are closed. Deadline hears Margot Robbie is eyeing to star as the title character (subject to script), Olivia Wilde will direct, and Poor Things scribe Tony McNamara will write the screenplay. Aboard to produce is LuckyChap, the shingle Robbie runs with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, and Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon through their Genre banner.
This one came to Warner Bros and the studio pre-empted it. It is the second big deal for the studio in a week. Warner Bros has closed a $2.5 million deal to secure a rights package for a movie about Chris Farley that Paul Walter Hauser will star in, with Josh Gad directing. The Avengelyne deal is even bigger.
LuckyChap is coming off Barbie, last year’s top-grossing film with eight Oscar nominations. Wilde last directed Don’t Worry Darling and before that Booksmart.
Deadline revealed this as a hot project April 4.
Avengelyne is an angel who fights the forces of evil and often finds herself face-to-face with demons and monsters. She was the most feared warrior in Heaven’s Warhost, having single-handedly broken into Pandemonium, the outer fortress of Hell, to confront the Devil himself. She is a fallen angel, banished from Heaven by God after being tricked into questioning his love for humans. Avengelyne was stripped of all her angelic abilities, other than her great strength and her blood, which, once extracted from her body, could be used as a weapon or a miracle, when it is empowered by quoting verses from the Bible. Avengelyne uses her powers to fight demons on Earth and is being groomed to be humankind’s last hope in a coming Armageddon.
Kinberg has produced the Deadpool films that came from Liefeld’s comics, and that led to the conversation on Avengelyne, which Kinberg brought to Robbie. They brought in Wilde and McNamara; between Deadpool, Barbie, Poor Things and Booksmart, there is an edgy sensibility they hope to capture here. Warner Bros production heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy sparked to a title that De Luca actually optioned when he ran production at New Line years ago. Liefeld’s stock is high, as Deadpool & Wolverine looks to be the summer’s big film. Kinberg is exec producer on that one.
In the past, Liefeld has explained his heroine this way: “Avengelyne resonated so powerfully with the audience because her story of redemption is one that is so relatable. A fallen angel, sentenced to redeem herself by serving humanity, Earth is a foreign environment to her, she must adapt in order to save herself as well as mankind. Her dilemma provides humor amidst the larger plot engine driving her journey.”
Verve, CAA and UTA handled the auction. Robbie is repped by CAA, Aran Michael Management and Entertainment 360; Wilde is CAA, Untitled and Hamilton Hodell, McNamara is UTA, Sugar23 and HLA Management, Liefeld is Verve and Energy Entertainment.
This one came to Warner Bros and the studio pre-empted it. It is the second big deal for the studio in a week. Warner Bros has closed a $2.5 million deal to secure a rights package for a movie about Chris Farley that Paul Walter Hauser will star in, with Josh Gad directing. The Avengelyne deal is even bigger.
LuckyChap is coming off Barbie, last year’s top-grossing film with eight Oscar nominations. Wilde last directed Don’t Worry Darling and before that Booksmart.
Deadline revealed this as a hot project April 4.
Avengelyne is an angel who fights the forces of evil and often finds herself face-to-face with demons and monsters. She was the most feared warrior in Heaven’s Warhost, having single-handedly broken into Pandemonium, the outer fortress of Hell, to confront the Devil himself. She is a fallen angel, banished from Heaven by God after being tricked into questioning his love for humans. Avengelyne was stripped of all her angelic abilities, other than her great strength and her blood, which, once extracted from her body, could be used as a weapon or a miracle, when it is empowered by quoting verses from the Bible. Avengelyne uses her powers to fight demons on Earth and is being groomed to be humankind’s last hope in a coming Armageddon.
Kinberg has produced the Deadpool films that came from Liefeld’s comics, and that led to the conversation on Avengelyne, which Kinberg brought to Robbie. They brought in Wilde and McNamara; between Deadpool, Barbie, Poor Things and Booksmart, there is an edgy sensibility they hope to capture here. Warner Bros production heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy sparked to a title that De Luca actually optioned when he ran production at New Line years ago. Liefeld’s stock is high, as Deadpool & Wolverine looks to be the summer’s big film. Kinberg is exec producer on that one.
In the past, Liefeld has explained his heroine this way: “Avengelyne resonated so powerfully with the audience because her story of redemption is one that is so relatable. A fallen angel, sentenced to redeem herself by serving humanity, Earth is a foreign environment to her, she must adapt in order to save herself as well as mankind. Her dilemma provides humor amidst the larger plot engine driving her journey.”
Verve, CAA and UTA handled the auction. Robbie is repped by CAA, Aran Michael Management and Entertainment 360; Wilde is CAA, Untitled and Hamilton Hodell, McNamara is UTA, Sugar23 and HLA Management, Liefeld is Verve and Energy Entertainment.
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IBJoel (04-30-24)
04-30-24 | 03:28 PM
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Didn't take long for the feet jokes to start 
04-30-24 | 05:06 PM
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I mean people can feel free to wax nostalgic about how... Avengelyne... was the smash hit that got them into collecting comics and how deep the lore is. 
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05-01-24 | 11:32 AM
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It could be a Cry for Dawn or an Angela movie and you wouldn't see much difference. 
05-01-24 | 11:43 AM
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Only now that you posted this have I realized that I thought this WAS an Angela movie and I have zero clue who Avengelyne is (and now that I'm actually really seeing he name, wow that's stupid as fuck). 90s indie comic characters, folks!
05-01-24 | 02:55 PM
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It would be hilarious if this is filmed and released before Spawn.
05-01-24 | 03:07 PM
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Well, I guess you mean before the reboot/remake of Spawn, since Spawn already had a theatrical release (I watched Spawn in theaters). There was also a Spawn cartoon.
This could be a fun film if folks like Margot Robbie are looking forward to it all coming together, and good on Rob L for finally getting one of his properties actually teed up as feature release with some A list folks attached to the property. I can swear that it feels like so many Liefeld properties were supposedly going to be turned into a movie whose release was right around the corner (I am not including Deadpool as one of the characters he had a hand in creating that actually has achieved popularity on the silver screen, as I am really talking about post Marvel work IP that Rob had a hand in) but other than an initial burst of news many months would pass and nothing further would come of the announcement.
This feels different, and might actually make its way onto the big screen, or picked up by Prime, Netflix, etc..
Again, good for Rob. I was like everyone else back in the early days of the Image folks breaking away from Marvel and bought tons of books that Rob worked on (including this title) or had a hand in its release, but now I am more likely to stumble onto Rob's name where searching on youtube and seeing that one of the suggested videos to watch is a here is the story of how Rob L became the most hated man in comics youtube production or something along those lines.
This could be a fun film if folks like Margot Robbie are looking forward to it all coming together, and good on Rob L for finally getting one of his properties actually teed up as feature release with some A list folks attached to the property. I can swear that it feels like so many Liefeld properties were supposedly going to be turned into a movie whose release was right around the corner (I am not including Deadpool as one of the characters he had a hand in creating that actually has achieved popularity on the silver screen, as I am really talking about post Marvel work IP that Rob had a hand in) but other than an initial burst of news many months would pass and nothing further would come of the announcement.
This feels different, and might actually make its way onto the big screen, or picked up by Prime, Netflix, etc..
Again, good for Rob. I was like everyone else back in the early days of the Image folks breaking away from Marvel and bought tons of books that Rob worked on (including this title) or had a hand in its release, but now I am more likely to stumble onto Rob's name where searching on youtube and seeing that one of the suggested videos to watch is a here is the story of how Rob L became the most hated man in comics youtube production or something along those lines.
05-01-24 | 03:21 PM
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Well, I guess you mean before the reboot/remake of Spawn, since Spawn already had a theatrical release (I watched Spawn in theaters). There was also a Spawn cartoon.
This could be a fun film if folks like Margot Robbie are looking forward to it all coming together, and good on Rob L for finally getting one of his properties actually teed up as feature release with some A list folks attached to the property. I can swear that it feels like so many Liefeld properties were supposedly going to be turned into a movie whose release was right around the corner (I am not including Deadpool as one of the characters he had a hand in creating that actually has achieved popularity on the silver screen, as I am really talking about post Marvel work IP that Rob had a hand in) but other than an initial burst of news many months would pass and nothing further would come of the announcement.
This feels different, and might actually make its way onto the big screen, or picked up by Prime, Netflix, etc..
Again, good for Rob. I was like everyone else back in the early days of the Image folks breaking away from Marvel and bought tons of books that Rob worked on (including this title) or had a hand in its release, but now I am more likely to stumble onto Rob's name where searching on youtube and seeing that one of the suggested videos to watch is a here is the story of how Rob L became the most hated man in comics youtube production or something along those lines.
This could be a fun film if folks like Margot Robbie are looking forward to it all coming together, and good on Rob L for finally getting one of his properties actually teed up as feature release with some A list folks attached to the property. I can swear that it feels like so many Liefeld properties were supposedly going to be turned into a movie whose release was right around the corner (I am not including Deadpool as one of the characters he had a hand in creating that actually has achieved popularity on the silver screen, as I am really talking about post Marvel work IP that Rob had a hand in) but other than an initial burst of news many months would pass and nothing further would come of the announcement.
This feels different, and might actually make its way onto the big screen, or picked up by Prime, Netflix, etc..
Again, good for Rob. I was like everyone else back in the early days of the Image folks breaking away from Marvel and bought tons of books that Rob worked on (including this title) or had a hand in its release, but now I am more likely to stumble onto Rob's name where searching on youtube and seeing that one of the suggested videos to watch is a here is the story of how Rob L became the most hated man in comics youtube production or something along those lines.
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05-02-24 | 08:12 AM
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Again, good for Rob. I was like everyone else back in the early days of the Image folks breaking away from Marvel and bought tons of books that Rob worked on (including this title) or had a hand in its release, but now I am more likely to stumble onto Rob's name where searching on youtube and seeing that one of the suggested videos to watch is a here is the story of how Rob L became the most hated man in comics youtube production or something along those lines.
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk...nto-movie.html
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ntnon (05-08-24)
05-02-24 | 08:16 AM
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Rob doesn't even have the rights to Youngblood anymore anyway.
To be honest it's not like others haven't taken Rob's pretty derivative creations and made something more out of it. I mean Deadpool is the obvious one but he turned Supreme over to Alan Moore, and Glory and Prophet over to other creative teams who went far beyond what the original premise was. Especially with the talent involved here I'd say it's likely that we don't get a "straight" adaptation of this concept, but maybe something that plays off of the "bad girl" trend in comics at the time.
Or maybe Robbie just really loves Avengelyne. I can't even spell that right without looking it up, the name is so bad.
I would lose it if they intentionally had her hold swords at odd angles though. He always just draws fists and then tries to draw swords over them.
To be honest it's not like others haven't taken Rob's pretty derivative creations and made something more out of it. I mean Deadpool is the obvious one but he turned Supreme over to Alan Moore, and Glory and Prophet over to other creative teams who went far beyond what the original premise was. Especially with the talent involved here I'd say it's likely that we don't get a "straight" adaptation of this concept, but maybe something that plays off of the "bad girl" trend in comics at the time.
Or maybe Robbie just really loves Avengelyne. I can't even spell that right without looking it up, the name is so bad.
I would lose it if they intentionally had her hold swords at odd angles though. He always just draws fists and then tries to draw swords over them.
