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Monday, August 19, 2024 

Garth Ennis adapts his own horror-thriller comic, Crossed, to film

The overrated Garth Ennis is adapting yet another cliche of the horror genre to live action, as the Hollywood Reporter's announced:
Garth Ennis is ready to cross another comic book adaptation off his list. The creator, whose Preacher and The Boys have already been adapted for TV, has penned a script for a movie adaptation of his comic Crossed. And now indie outfit Six Studios has acquired the screenplay, with an intention to finance and back the movie.

Crossed takes place in a pandemic-stricken world, in which those who catch a disease are marked with a cross-like rash on their faces. Those afflicted follow their worst impulses — think a zombie apocalypse, but instead of zombies, these are humans who retain their intellect, but are homicidal maniacs.

[...] Six Studios’ Choi says the script is an intimate, human story. “It was the most faithful adaptation possible,” says Choi, who likens it to Contagion meets The Walking Dead, with hints of Alex Garland’s Civil War, in that it’s a road movie across a ravaged United States.
It's one thing to write up a post-apocalyptic adventure, but once again, we get a horror-themed tale rammed down our throats, and no genuine comedy. What is it that's drawing anybody to this kind of frustrating exercise in futility? What's even "human" about this? It's bound to reek of cheap sensationalism, and anybody who thinks crude themes like what Crossed is built on have become too much the norm for comics and movies alike, would do well to cross it off their list of films to see.

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