WB button button snaps up comicbook 'Lucid'

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Archaia Entertainment's comicbook small-series "Lucid" for author-producer Akiva Goldsman to develop and provide just like a potential new film franchise. Zachary Quinto's production banner Just before the doorway, which created it, can also be aboard to evolve the house for your bigscreen. With "Harry Potter" getting ended its run within the studio, WB is about the quest for completely new projects to think about its place. If this was introduced at Hillcrest Comic-Disadvantage, last season, "Lucid" was known to love an account from the products transpires with Harry Potter if he was elevated and grew to become part of the CIA. Composed by "True Blood stream" thesp Michael McMillian and outlined by Anna Wieszczyk, some-book series happens in the parallel world where miracle is real and world leaders have secret agents attempting to safeguard against supernatural risks. Primary character can be a youthful agent, recently hired "Protector in the Realm," who must use his capabilities just like a covert spy and combat mage to avoid an occult technology dealer. No film author has yet been hired to evolve the fantasy actioner. Archaia's editor-in-chief Stephen Christy would also be the producer round the pic. "Lucid" was the initial comicbook to depart Quinto's Just before the doorway banner with Archaia before next tabs on "Mr. Murder is Dead," put together by Victor Quinaz, with art by Brent Schoonover. The "Lucid" deal might be the 2nd for Archaia with Warner Bros. and Goldsman after recently creating reclusive dinosaur-tale "Bolivar," using the approaching book from Sean Rubin, becoming an animated feature that Kerry Foster's Weed Road may also be aboard to produce and Kealan O'Rourke will write and direct. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com