The Blockbuster Screenwriter Whose Films Have
Grossed Over One Billion Dollars
Makes His Comic Book Debut with Prestige Format Limited
Series.
LOS
ANGELES, July 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BAD IDEA is
proud to announce that blockbuster
screenwriter Derek
Kolstad, creator and writer of the internationally
acclaimed, box office dominating motion picture franchise JOHN
WICK, as well as the multi-award winning action-thriller
NOBODY and its upcoming sequel for Universal Studios, will
join New York Times best-selling writer
Robert Venditti
(Superman '78, Green Lantern) and visionary
artist Tomás Giorello (Star Wars, Conan)
for PLANET DEATH - an all-new BAD IDEA Prestige Format
limited series beginning in March.
Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into
the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army
of resolute men and women brace for the coming
assault.
They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission —
destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal
Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces
are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott's battalion
is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force
annihilated, the battle is lost.
Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable —
cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade
capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face
human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly.
Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by
what he can carry, and driven by Earth's wrath, Scott must do by
himself what an entire army could not.
Destroy the weapon.
Return home.
"Derek, Rob, and Tomás have built an absolutely massive story of
the highest caliber in PLANET DEATH, and we've planned an equally
massive promotional campaign to support it," said BAD IDEA CEO
& Chief Creative Officer Dinesh
Shamdasani.
"It all begins this month at the legendary San Diego Comic-Con
with our PLANET DEATH convention exclusive giveaway comic
spotlighting the book's virtuoso art, a massive panel featuring the
entire creative team appearing on stage, and a no-expense-spared
live event in the book's honor."
Derek Kolstad created the JOHN
WICK franchise, which follows Keanu
Reeves' retired hitman on his descent back into the criminal
underworld, for Lionsgate Entertainment who launched the first film
in 2014. That film has been followed by a trio of critically
acclaimed sequels, each of which has grossed more at the box office
than the one before. Kolstad, who wrote the first two films and
co-wrote the third, has seen his work on the franchise expand to
include the limited series, THE CONTINENTAL from
Lionsgate/Peacock, which he wrote and executive produced on, and
the much anticipated THE BALLERINA, an upcoming spin-off
film starring Oscar nominee Ana de
Armas.
Kolstad also wrote and executive produced the acclaimed
action-thriller NOBODY starring Bob
Odenkirk for Universal Studios, and penned the sequel which
arrives in theaters next year. Among Kolstad's many other credits
are writing and co-executive producing Marvel's 5x Emmy-nominated
limited series THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER for
Disney+, producing 20th Century Studios' Joey King actioner THE PRINCESS for Hulu,
and creating, writing and executive producing the 7x Emmy-nominated
series DIE HART starring Kevin
Hart, John Travolta and
John Cena. Kolstad's films have
amassed more than one billion dollars
at the worldwide box office to date.
Robert Venditti is
a New York
Times bestselling author of more than 400 comics
and graphic novels including a celebrated 5-year run on Green
Lantern, an acclaimed 3-year run on Hawkman,
award-winning runs on Superman '78
and Justice League for
DC Comics, as well as the graphic novel Six Days,
inspired by the story of his uncle's participation in
D-Day. His debut graphic novel The
Surrogates was adapted into a feature film starring
Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames for Walt Disney Pictures. He
has also adapted Rick Riordan's
global bestselling Percy
Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of
Olympus series. His most recent projects
include Wesley Dodds: The
Sandman, Ordained, Planet Death, and a whole lot
of Bad Ideas.
"PLANET DEATH is my love letter to all of the comics and books I
read, movies I watched, and games I played – late into the night
with a grin on my face…from HARD BOILED and RONIN by Frank Miller to the films of Alistair MacLean like THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
and WHERE EAGLES DARE to Bradbury,
Asimov, and Heinlein, to games like STARCRAFT and everything in
between," said Kolstad.
"Some of my favorite stories are the ones that blend science
fiction with elements of the war genre. From STARSHIP TROOPERS to
ALIENS and EDGE OF TOMORROW. With PLANET DEATH we take this
tradition and add all those things we love so much about comic
books."
"From my first conversations with Derek, I don't know how to
describe it, other than an engine clicked on. Writing the first
issue, I was buzzing with adrenaline. I couldn't stop until I got
the whole issue down. I was swept up in Scott's relentless
will—always pressing forward, always pushing ahead," said
Venditti.
"I've written a lot of science fiction—but never from the
perspective of a boots-on-the-ground, D-Day-style invasion. With
every project, I want to push myself further. PLANET DEATH is
bigger in scale and scope than anything I've done before."
This coming March, blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, New York
Times best-selling writer Robert
Venditti and visionary artist Tomás
Giorello unleash a monumental new comic book event in
PLANET DEATH #1 – available in comic shops around the
world! But fans at this month's San Diego Comic-Con will get a
first look on Saturday, July
27th at 2:30pm with
a PLANET DEATH convention exclusive that will be given to attendees
of the BAD IDEA panel in room 24ABC at the world-famous show.
For more information, visit Bad Idea online at BadIdeaCorp.com,
X, and Instagram.
Founded in 2020, BAD IDEA is the last and greatest underground
comics publisher. Committed to pushing the boundaries of excellence
in the medium and industry, BAD IDEA produces only A-level comics
storytelling from the medium's leading talents in a prestige-format
package. Breaking onto the scene with the explosive and hotly
sought after secret drop of THE HERO TRADE, BAD IDEA followed up
with a series of smash hit slates featuring titles like ENIAC,
PYRATE QUEEN, THE ENDS, THE LOT and TANKERS among many others.
Earning widespread acclaim, multiple sellouts and allocations, BAD
IDEA continues to set the standard and then raise it.
With fans lining up outside shops overnight, funding
record-setting crowdfunding campaigns, and jamming convention
aisles, BAD IDEA is more than just comics. It's an all-in lifestyle
commitment to the best and most exciting name in comics today.
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