Taika Waititi’s Next Comic Book Project Is Sci-Fi Masterpiece The Incal

As if coming off of Thor: Love and Thunder, a Star Wars film, displaying up in Free Guy, attempting to get a Flash Gordon reboot off the bottom, and a couple of zillion different issues weren’t sufficient, Taika Waititi has now connected himself to an adaptation of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud’s (aka Moebius) luxurious ‘80s space opera The Incal.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Waititi will both direct and co-write the script for the movie, alongside What We Do in the Shadows and Flight of the Conchords collaborator Jemaine Clement and Peter Warren, with a first draft due by the end of the year. The Incal’s writer, Humanoids, purportedly hopes that having Waititi, Clement, and Warren’s first draft earlier than pitching the movie for distribution will assist easy the method, as presently no movie studio or streaming platform is connected to the challenge.

“The films and graphic novels of Alejandro Jodorowsky have influenced me and so many others for so long,” Waititi mentioned in a press release supplied to THR. “I was stunned to be given the opportunity to bring his iconic characters to life and I am grateful to Alejandro, Fabrice and everyone at Humanoids for trusting me to do so.”

Illustrated by the legendary French artist Moebius, The Incal is a grand area journey the place a non-public investigator, John Difool, finds himself thrust throughout the cosmos on a quest to save lots of the universe after crossing paths with the mysterious titular artifact, chased by varied factions who hope to harness its powers to information and shield those that imagine in it. The collection, first printed in 1988, was impressed by concepts Jodorowsky had whereas growing his doomed adaptation of Dune, and its success result in the creation of the “Jodoverse,” the fictional shared universe the place the author’s future sci-fi works all occurred.

We’ll carry you extra on Waititi’s plans for The Incal as and after we study them.

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