EXCLUSIVE: 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow scribe Laura Kosann has been hired to adapt the female-driven comic book Mercy Sparx for MGM, The Picture Company and Assemble Media.Created by Josh Blaylock, the title protag is a female demon sent from Hell to Earth on a mission, which she must complete while hiding among humans.
On Earth, Mercy has an existential crisis and begins to see the gray area between good and evil. It forces her to choose her place within it and compromises her mission.
The comic debuted ten years ago via Devil’s Due Publishing, and the IP has been seen by the studio as a franchise with an empowering female character at the center.Jack Heller of Assemble is producing along with The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona.
Comic creator Blaylock is serving as EP along with Assemble’s Scott Veltri. Heller and Assemble developed the script and controlled the rights to the property, then partnered with The Picture Company.Both of Kosann’s screenplays, The Ideal Woman and From Little Acorns Grow, were on the annual 2021 Black List.From Little Acorns Grow is set up at Innis Free and B for Effort.
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