Gina Carano, an MMA fighter-turned-actress, and comic creator Rob Liefeld are teaming up to bring Liefeld’s creation Avengelyne to the big screen.
Carano and Liefeld will be at Comic-Con on Saturday to meet with fans and sign posters that feature Carano as the character.
First published in 1995 by Liefeld -- who co-created X-Force, Cable and Deadpool for Marvel before leaving with several other artists to form Image Comics during the early 1990s -- Avengelyne and its subsequent miniseries told of a fallen angel cast to Earth. Her mission is to find and protect “The One,” a person who holds the key to saving mankind from demons and other monsters.
Carano and Liefeld are reconceiving and rebuilding the title into a starring vehicle for Carano, and the movie project is intended to be in the vein of Underworld, the popular vampire-vs.-werewolves franchise starring Kate Beckinsale.
Scott Karp and Brooklyn Weaver (Out of the Furnace) will be packaging and producing the project with Carano and Liefeld.
Avengelyne is among a handful of supernatural female comic book characters who have name recognition, making them ripe for adaptation. On Tuesday, THR reported that visual effects company Rhythm & Hues has optioned Dynamite Entertainment’s Chastity, which tells the story of teenager Chastity Marks, a runaway accused of murdering her abusive father.
A search for a writer or a writer-director to adapt Avengelyne will begin next week.
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