Studio 407 to Join 'Havoc Brigade' and 'Demon Squad'
Horror screenwriter Neal Marshall Stevens has -- according to Variety -- just signed a deal with Studio 407 to write two new comic book titles, Havoc Brigade and Demon Squad -- which the company will have an option to bring to the big screen.
Stevens, who was responsible for screenplays for the Thirteen Ghosts remake (for producer Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment), as well as The Amityville Tapes, the planned sequel to The Amityville Horror, first teamed up with Studio 407 to script the Eric Vallete-directed horror film Hunter, which the company co-produced with Stallion Pictures (Punisher: War Zone). Hunter is due out later this year. While the "futuristic action-thriller" Havoc Brigade is expected in comic shops across America on March 25th. The "action scarefest" Demon Squad will also be out later this year.
Stevens was apparently attracted to the idea of making comics because "'only around one in 10' of the scripts he's written have wound up on the bigscreen. With comic books, 'I knew going in that the scripts that I wrote would actually be produced, and that the work would get in front of an audience,' he said."
Studio 407 is also, along with Myriad Pictures, producing Hybrid and The Night Projectionist, based on the company's other genre comic titles.
