Raimi and Cruise Together on Sleeper
Posted by: Dustin Christian // Category: DC, Image, movies
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I found out about this article in the Hollywood Reporter via a post on Ed Brubaker’s blog today and have since seen it spread all over the place. I refuse to continue the cliche of saying Sleeper is being “woken up”. It’s almost as lame as all of the “Holy Unoriginality, Batman!” tripe that goes around.
Anyway, in case you’ve been skipping the blogs and interwebs all day and I have the honor of being the first thing you read today, Sam Raimi and Tom Cruise are apparently trying to set up a film adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s Sleeper series at Warner Brothers, with Cruise “loosely attached” to star. With luck, someone else won’t already have the rights and Warner Brothers will actually be able to release the movie, should it actually be made. The general caveats apply, of course. Buying options to or “setting up” adaptations does not necessarily mean that the film will be made and Cruise may not actually star, but having the names of Raimi and Cruise attached definitely don’t hurt the odds of seeing Sleeper in theaters.
Brubaker mentions this in his blog post, but it bears repeating that Hollywood Reporter got one thing wrong - Sleeper is not a spin-off of either WildC.A.T.S. or Gen13, it merely features some characters that also appear in those series.
Finally, I have no idea why the sentence “Sleeper sees Raimi and Donen continuing their company’s superhero, which began when they recently set up the superhero story “The Transplants” at Disney.” made it past the copyeditors.
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