Mandalay Pictures has optioned the film rights to Mark Sable‘s comic book series Unthinkable. BOOM! Studios, publisher of the comic, made the announcement.
“Our partners at Mandalay are the best in the business,” said BOOM! Studios CEO Ross Richie. “Cathy Schulman won the Oscar for Crash and Peter Guber’s a legend in the business. We couldn’t be happier!”
Unthinkable is created and written by Mark Sable, with art by Julian Totino Tedesco. BOOM! also plans to publish a trade paperback collection of the five-issue series.
The story “centers around best-selling author Alan Ripley, recruited just after 9/11 to join a government think tank of America’s most imaginative minds to think of nightmare scenarios and crippling terrorist attacks on US soil. Years after the think tank is disbanded, attacks Ripley envisioned begin to happen and only he can stop whoever is behind the destruction.”
In May, we published perhaps the most viewed SFScope article this year, in which we announced Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts. He talked about being interrogated at Los Angeles International Airport over some concern regarding the script he was carrying for Unthinkable #3.
Related stories previously published on SFScope:
BOOM!’s Unthinkable posits SIGMA-like group thinking the unthinkable (24 March 2009)