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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Wu (American Born Chinese language, Badlands) is co-writing and growing a comic book guide collection with veteran Marvel, DC and Valiant artist Sean Chen, with plans to adapt the property for movie and TV starring Wu.
The undertaking, Evermind, will debut by way of Kickstarter on Tuesday.
Evermind, from 247 Comics, tells the story of missed innovator Lucas Zhang (whose likeness is impressed by Wu), who has labored his complete life to push humanity past the bounds of bodily limitations together with his unbelievable developments in neurolink know-how. However his quest for fulfillment has come at a value. Now, in a determined try to save lots of his personal humanity — and the lifetime of his solely baby — Zhang unleashes a robust new know-how that’s too harmful to be trusted. Now he’s promoting out and cashing in, and his patented masterworks are serving solely two functions: destruction and need.
“As a minority lead actor, regardless of your degree of earlier success or notable roles, in Hollywood there are solely so many elements you’ll be supplied. So, I obtained to pondering, why ought to I wait round for that subsequent alternative, once I may simply create and outline it for myself?” Wu stated in a press release to Deadline.
He continued, “I discovered the right collaborator in Sean, as a result of he had two characters he had been drawing for years, nevertheless it was this partnership that helped construct out the backstory, the world, and the motivations of the characters themselves. The most effective a part of beginning this journey in comics is that we aren’t confined by the identical form of finances that prohibits movie and tv. Kickstarter offers us the chance to show the viability of this property for a number of mediums, and produce followers alongside for the complete experience.”
Added Chen, “At its coronary heart, Evermind is about two folks—a scientist father and his teenage daughter—who’re pushed aside by contrasting ideology after which compelled collectively by unbelievable circumstances. I used to be actually impressed by the story of Steve Jobs and his troubled relationship together with his daughter, which was sophisticated and nuanced, and goes a lot deeper than, ‘You have been by no means there!’ This relationship is the story engine that performs out in opposition to a collection of occasions the place you surprise if the gulf between them will ever be closed and what would be the destiny of the daddy’s soul.”
