His last film was the unconventional, and successful Colossal. Now director Nacho Vigalondo is turning his attention to a comic book adaptation with The Comeback.
The Walking Dead's creator Robert Kirkman is also involved, though only as a producer this time. Vigalondo is on to adapt and direct the Image Comics title, written by Ed Brisson. It sounds a little like Looper and the more recently Dwayne Johnson-backed YouTube Red series Lifeline, in that the story follows Seth and Mark, two agents working for Reconnect. The company – for a large fee – offers the chance to rescue a loved one just before death by going back in time. It's also an illegal venture, and the FBI have started to investigate it. When one mission goes badly, Seth meets a future version of himself, and he and Mark must go on the run from not just the FBI, but also their own company, looking to keep its dark secrets.
This is clearly in Vigalondo's wheelhouse given the presence of Timecrimes on his CV, and hopefully he can distinguish it from similar ideas. And with Sony backing the film, this sets him up to enter the studio world.
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