Summit Has Got an ALIBI

Variety reported back in August that Mandeville Films were developing a feature film version of the Top Cow comic ALIBI.   Now, they are hitting us with the news that Summit Entertainment, fresh off making bank (and still pulling it in) with NEW MOON, has come on board the film’s production, as well.

Released last year, the comic centers on a top government assassin who uses the presence of his twin brother as an alibi for his kills.   DONKEY PUNCH writer John Hlavin has come on board to adapt the comic for the screen.

Summit and Mandeville are hoping to replicate the success of WANTED, a successful film based on another Top Cow property.   No director and no actors are attached to ALIBI yet.   NEW MOON is fast approaching the $500 million mile marker in worldwide grosses, so, I’m sure, backing a comic book-based film isn’t exactly a gamble in Summit’s eyes.