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Paramount Puts Faith in MAGDALENA

By: News Editor
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Source: Variety

Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to Top Cow's comicbook, MAGDALENA. Screenwriter Kevin Taft will adapt.

The story centers on a young woman named Patience who discovers she is part of a lineage of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene. She must save the world from supernatural evil.

Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios' Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce.

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• Oct 26, 2005, 04:48am •
Sounds cool as long as Uwe Boll, doesn`t get his hands on it.

• Oct 26, 2005, 06:29am •
I've been a fan of the comic, but this is a bad idea for two reasons. One, the comic has never sold well. No matter who they have writing and drawing, Top Cow has never been able to get more than a four issue mini out of the concept every few years (and each one comes and goes with very little notice), so there is no built-in fan base to support a film. Two, much as I like the comic, it's a blatant rip-off of Buffy (reluctant American teenage chosen one answers to a secret society of European men who send her off to fight evil), and non-comic-readers are going to regard a movie as a rip, too. I suspect this one will go straight to video via the Sci Fi Channel.

lracors • Oct 26, 2005, 08:50am •
Is she too young to be played by Uma Thurman???

• Oct 26, 2005, 12:50pm •
Ahhh Uwe Boll. The only person who makes Joel Schumacher's films seem good...

• Oct 27, 2005, 02:33am •
Listen. A movie about a young, beautiful, half-naked, a**kicker WILL make money as long as it is rated "R" and written FOR ADULTS!!! If they make a kitty movie with a PG-13, it will suck worse than the suckiest Uwe Boll movie!! (That's a lot of sucking!!) They should cast Eliza Dushku or Kelly Monacco in the role!!

• Oct 27, 2005, 04:08am •
And of course she's armed with a katana - she really does look like a LARP/cosplay nut.

• Oct 27, 2005, 07:05am •
That's interesting a samurai nun.

lracors • Oct 27, 2005, 08:34am •
...Eliza Dushku... yum...

• Oct 27, 2005, 10:16am •
Kelly Monacco is hot, but can she act? And DM, even KobeTai sucks less than Uwe Boll.

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