Kaiju Thriller Novel Project Nemesis to Receive TV Adaptation

The final couple of years have delivered us some stable kaiju enjoyable within the type of Ultraman, quite a few Godzilla initiatives from each Japan and the US, and Kaiju No. 8. Whether they’re metaphors for local weather change or the atrocities that human beings inflict on each other, or simply large ass monsters, watching kaiju wreck densely populated cities has but to get outdated. And quickly, a brand new TV present will take part on that huge, apocalyptic enjoyable.

Deadline is reporting that Jeremy Robinson’s 2012 sci-fi novel, Project Nemesis, is about to obtain its personal TV adaptation courtesy of Sony TV and Fast & Furious studio Original Film. In the e book, the kaiju Nemesis serves the goddess of vengeance and seeks brutal, metropolis destroying justice for many who’ve been tormented. When her DNA turns into merged with a lately murdered lady named Maigo, Nemesis does what she does greatest and begins to go on a rampage from Maine to Boston searching for the lady’s killer. Tracking their pursuit is a DHS company named John Hudson, now vindicated for heading up the company’s paranormal division.

Sounds like a enjoyable sufficient premise for a TV present, if solely as a result of nobody’s actually achieved a homicide thriller that includes an enormous monster because the detective earlier than. (If they’ve, please let me know!) And the e book’s followers appear to agree, as a result of Project Nemesis went on to spawn its personal collection, dubbed “The Nemesis Saga.” The six-book collection spawned a comic book miniseries adapting its occasions, and at one level, there was even a online game that includes Nemesis monsters known as Colossal Kaiju Combat that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter and supposed as a preventing sport within the vein of outdated Godzilla preventing video games from Pipeworks throughout the PS2 and Xbox days. Sadly, the sport went unreleased, and finally shut down in 2017.

At this time, an supposed platform or launch date for Project Nemesis has but to be revealed. Serving as govt producer and director is Chad Stahelski, greatest recognized for the John Wick franchise, the eventual Highlander remake, and the upcoming movie adaptation of Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima. In a press assertion, Stahelski expressed pleasure at bringing Robinson’s collection to life, having been hooked on the e book the second he learn it. “This amazing book series has everything I love about the genre,” he stated. “It’s got martial arts, action, great characters, and of course, Kaiju!”

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