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Comics2Film touched base with Jon Hoeber for a progress reports on the movie version of Greg Rucka and illustrated by Steve Lieber's Whiteout movie. Hoeber and his brother Erich are the screenwriters on the project and were instrumental in getting the project set up as a film at Columbia Pictures.

Hoeber told C2F that they are currently working on a new draft of the script. "I'm nose-to-the-grindstone Whiteout boy," Hoeber said. Work on the new script was started recently after ongoing development work with the studio. "It's taken a long time on the back and forth with the studio reading periods. All that stuff is always madness."

Hoeber also told us that the pair are not yet officially on board The Inhumans movie. "We've talked to Marvel about a number of projects and that is one of them," Hoeber said. "It continues to be one of several that's in discussion."

Yesterday Comics2Film published part one of our interview with producer Barry Levine. Levine had told us about Shadowman, a movie based on the Acclaim comics character, set to go into production next year. Levine also told us that he has a few other Acclaim concepts in development.

"Right now we're doing Quantum and Woody." Levine told us. The comic was a comedic take on a pair of superheroes, created by Christopher Priest and Mark Bright. Levine reports that they'll be shopping it to studios soon.

"We're going out with it as Lethal Weapon meets Men In Black," Levine said. Steve Carr (Next Friday, Doctor Dolittle 2)  is attached to direct with Darryl Quarles (Big Momma's House) set to write the screenplay.

Another Acclaim title on the Brigade slate is Bloodshot. "We're developing Bloodshot right now for Triple H," Levine told us. Triple H is the WWF wrestler also know as Hunter Hearst Helmsley and whose real name is Paul Levesque. This project is still in the early stages. John Kelly (The Chaos Factor) is writing.

While previous reports had indicated that Brigade was also developing Acclaim's Turok, Levine told C2F that they're not doing that.

In addition to Damage Control, which we talked about yesterday, Brigade is also taking on a few other Marvel concepts. "One of favorite projects with Marvel is Lunatik," Levine said. " Adam Rifkin [Detroit Rock City] is developing this."

Brigade is also planning a feature film based on The Inhumans. According to Levine, Jon and Erich Hoeber are scheduled to write the screenplay. The Hoeber brothers just finished a script for the movie version of Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber's Whiteout.

Chaos! Comics also has a few concepts in place at Levine's production house. Evil Ernie is in place as a co-production with Gene Simmons, who Levine has been associated since his days as a rock and roll photographer. 

Brigade is also developing Chastity with writer Michael Browning (Six Days Seven Nights).

Levine's interest in comics doesn't end with comic-based movies. "Brigade Entertainment will be starting our own comic book company," Levine told us. Dave Elliott, a VP at Brigade will head up the comic book effort. Elliott's no stranger to comics, having written such titles as Sharky and acted as publisher with his Blackball comics. The new venture will publish both print and online comics. Properties will be developed with an eye towards bringing them to the big screen.

As most fans can tell you, when filmmakers bring comic books concepts to the big screen, the transition isn't always smooth. Levin explains, "What they try to do is, they radically try to change it so much that they dilute the essence of the character and the comic book, where it's unrecognizable.

"I really believe that if you're gonna make comic books for the sake of writing comic books, that's great. But if you're going to try and develop a comic book from the beginning and you want to make that into a film, I really believe that you should try and conceptualize it as a potential film."

Brigade is bringing comic and screen writers together to work on concepts. They hop to start rolling out their comics in the Summer of 2001. The current slate calls for a number of mini series as well as a few longer series.

"We're developing all these other comic books for so many other people, we just decided, why not develop it for us?"

Everyone's favorite voodoo jazz musician may be making the transition to the big screen soon.  Producer Barry Levine of Takoma Entertainment Group told Comics2Film that a movie adaptation of the quirky Acclaim Comics character Shadowman is currently in the works.  Michael Henry Brown (Dead Presidents) and Paul Aaron (In Too Deep) are currently developing a script.   Scripting is scheduled to be completed within the next two months.  If the screenplay looks good Levine is ready to take Shadowman immediately into production.

Levine is also a producer on another Acclaim character: Magnus Robot Fighter.  The producer is currently hearing pitches from writers for this project.  John Davis (Doctor Dolittle) and Akiva Goldsman (Lost In Space) are also producing.

Levine has Marvel's Damage Control set up with Village Roadshow Pictures.

Another very interesting Marvel property in the early stages at Takoma is The Inhumans.  This one is a co-production with Pacifica Entertainment.