Darius Films has optioned GearHead for feature film adaptation. GearHead was created by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon, and debuted this February. It tells the story of Shelby Cooper, “a teenage girl who lives in a world of spandex-clad Superhero politicians and electric cars. However, she’s more into big gas-guzzling hot rods than spandex clad muscle heads. That is until she finds out her dad died fighting alongside those heroes. Soon she sets off on a cross country road trip that leads from the race tracks to the White House in search of answers. She’s the ultimate bad ass, a hot chick with a hotrod. She drives fast, talks trash, and hurts people with a big-ass wrench. She is GearHead!”
GearHead is Hopeless and Mellon’s first series, and the option is “not something we expected… at all,” said Hopeless. Mellon said, “When Dennis Hopeless and I started to work on GearHead over a year and a half ago, the absolute last thing on our minds was the possibility that it could be a movie. Consider our minds blown. We’re very excited about the opportunities this presents us. We couldn’t be happier that a company like Darius Films has taken a chance on our little idea about a girl with wrench who beats people up.”
Darius Films is a Toronto-based film and television production company. They’ve produced more than a dozen films in the ten years since their founding, including the music mock-umentrary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, Weirdsville, and Hank and Mike, an adult comedy about Easter Bunnies.
Director/writer Cory Kinney will be adapting the comic book, which is published by Canada’s Arcana Studio.