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Shortly after the overrated Geoff Johns launched a creator-owned venture called Ghost Machine, Deadline's reporting that one of his writings, Redcoat, looks like it'll be adapted to the silver screen, and surely the most laughable part is how this is made to sound on the surface like something respectable of America, despite what some of Johns' own mainstream writings in the past quarter century were like:

Atlas Entertainment and Ghost Machine have made a deal for a feature film adaptation of Redcoat, the comic series written by Geoff Johns (Aquaman, The Flash). Redcoat’s debut issue in April 2024 was an instant sellout, and the ongoing series has since been a bestseller for Ghost Machine and publishing partner Image Comics.

The film will be scripted by Johns, based on a story by Johns and Bryan Hitch. Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing for Atlas Entertainment.

After a British deserter mistakenly gains immortality during the American Revolution, he is forced to face his cowardly past and fight against a sinister plot to destroy America. Reminiscent of the bombastic historical action in Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones, Redcoat pulls back the curtain of American history to tell the legend of the unknown hero. The comics are illustrated by Hitch (The Ultimates), colored by Brad Anderson, and lettered by Rob Leigh.

This is awfully rich considering that Johns forced a Muslim protagonist into Green Lantern a dozen years ago, in a story rife with woke cliches, and now we're presumably meant to believe he really cares about the USA? Sorry, but if he obscures what the Religion of Peace is like, then no matter the structure of Redcoat, his previous work and positions render it a joke. By the way, why no sales figures? And as noted, Hitch was the artist for the Ultimates, which was overrated, and came from the pen of Mark Millar. Also, ComicBook told that there's a DCEU connection working on this adaptation project:

...It was also revealed that Alex Gartner and Charles Roven will be producing for Atlas Entertainment, and Roven has not only worked with Johns previously on the DC film universe, but he’s also been involved with many of the DCEU’s previous films.

Roven worked alongside Johns for the Gal Gadot-starring Wonder Woman, and Roven has also had a hand in DC films like The Suicide Squad, Justice League, Wonder Woman 1984, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel, Suicide Squad, and even Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The only DC films of that era Roven didn’t work on were The Flash, the Aquaman movies, Birds of Prey, and Black Adam, and he hasn’t worked with Johns since Wonder Woman 1984.

Well I'm not expecting Redcoat to be anything truly convincing in terms of patriotism and morality. And if Johns hasn't apologized for giving the Religion of Peace a whitewashed platform when he worked at DC, nor for any of the jarring violence he shoehorned into the mainstream comics he previously wrote, then there's less reason to be convinced he's repenting for his past mistakes in mainstream scriptwriting, and it looks like here, he's just looking for an excuse to get back into more Hollywood assignments. That's another reason I find his work so insufferable these days. He may have begun his career as an assisstant to filmmakers, and it's clear that was a poor influence in the long run.

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