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Exclusive: Production company Trustbridge Entertainment has taken dramatic rights to shepherd author Andrew Joseph White’s queer debut novel, Hell Followed With Us, into a full-length animated feature with The Matrix co-architect Lilly Wachowski and Sarah Marie Flores producing through their Anarchists United shingle.

Also producing will be Circle Management + Production Founding Partner Lawrence Mattis (Work in Progress), Powerhouse Animation Studios, and producers Daniel Dominguez, Brad Graeber and Jacob Robinson of Line Mileage. Screenwriters Alvaro Rodriguez and Warren Wagner (The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark) are adapting.

“Hell Followed With Us is such a visceral combination of dystopian fantasy, action, and horror that turning it into an epic anime-inspired feature was a no-brainer,” said Trustbridge Entertainment President Bob Higgins. “The gut-wrenchingly honest personal...

Screen Rant is excited to share an exclusive preview of General Strike, a comic anthology combining the work of all-star comic creators and WGA writers. This anthology will bring together stories about the hard work laborers are putting in while striving for economic equality. It features all-stars from the comic industry with the backing of publisher Black Mask Studios.

Black Mask Studios is best known for publishing the three-issue comic series, Calexit. Released in 2017, Calexit tells the story of California seceding from and going to war against a fascist United States. It has the creative team of Matteo Pizzolo, Amancay Nahuelpan, Jim Campbell, and Tyler Boss. The series blends speculative fiction with non-fiction stories about local sustainability and grassroots campaigns. Now, the publisher will join forces with the WGA (Writers Guild of America) to produce a new comic General Strike: Calexit and Other Tales of Fighting the Good Fight. Black Mask...

The writers and actors strike is getting a boost from the comics world and a new superhero named General Strike.

Indie publisher Black Mask Studios, run by Matteo Pizzolo, is putting together a comics anthology that will be written by WGA members with the company matching the writers’ fees with donations to the safety net organization Entertainment Community Fund.

The announcement comes as the writers strike hits its 100th day. No new contract talks are scheduled to begin any time soon.

Titled General Stike: Calexit and Other Tales of Fighting the Good Fight, the collection of new stories has the theme of confronting economic inequality and, like any good superhero story, featuring new characters fighting the good fight against injustice. A bubblegum-chewing, labor-organizing character named General Strike will act as the host of the comic, threading the stories together.

The book is in pre-launch mode on Kickstarter now, with an official launch set for Aug.

Exclusive: McFarlane Films is partnering with wiip and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Rooster Teeth Studios to develop RAW10, an adult animated series from creator Dan Dominguez (Gen: Lock), inspired by McFarlane Toys’ eponymous series of action figures.

The RAW10 toyline consists of cybernetically enhanced animals, which are now sold exclusively at Walmart. Dominguez’s adaptation will be an R-rated Saturday morning cartoon for adults that, through the lens of the toyline, will satirically explore the tropes of ’80s-era animation. He will exec produce alongside Todd McFarlane, McFarlane Films’ Sean Canino, wiip’s Paul Lee, Mark Roybal and Nate Winslow, and Rooster Teeth Studios’ Dan Shorr. The team will be taking the project to buyers at the top of next month.

McFarlane Toys is a top-5 global leader in its field, and a licensee of world-class brands and leading global franchises. The company was founded by comic book legend Todd McFarlane,...

Exclusive: Political satirist/comedian Bassem Youssef is teaming with Powerhouse Animation Studios to adapt his forthcoming book The Magical Reality of Nadia, inspired by Youssef’s own life experience, as a television series.

The Magical Reality of Nadia is described as a humorous and heartfelt story about prejudice, friendship, empathy, and courage. Written by Youssef and Catherine R. Daly with illustrations by Douglas Holgate (The Last Kids on Earth), the book is inspired by Bassem’s own experience and his hopes and dreams for his children. Scholastic will publish the first book in the series in February 2021.

In the book, Nadia, who is Youssef’s young daughter, moved from Egypt to America when she was six years old, and is determined to win a school contest to design an exhibit at the local museum. A new kid shows up at school and teases Nadia about her family’s culture. Luckily for Nadia,...

Exclusive: Rapper Snoop Dogg is to voice and exec produce an animated comedy for Amazon with Vince Vaughn also exec producing.

The streamer is developing Oaklandia, which is written by Daniel Dominguez (right), head writer and exec producer for season two of HBO Max’s Michael B. Jordan animated series Gen:Lock, and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell (left), who starred in Comedy Central’s Detroiters and created Adult Swim special Ole Bud’s Anu Football Weekly.

The animated series is set in Oakland, California. Produced by Amazon Studios, Snoop Dogg and his manager and business partner Ted Chung exec produce alongside Vaughn, Victoria Vaughn and Peter Billingsley for Wild West Picture Show Productions and Dominguez and Powell.

It is the streamer’s latest move into adult animation. Earlier this year, it ordered Fairfax, a series based on the strange phenomenon of Los Angeles hypebeast culture, from Matt Hausfater, Aaron Buchsbaum, and...

For the upcoming second season of gen:lock -- a mecha-inspired anime series produced by Rooster Teeth and Michael B. Jordan’s production studio, Outlier Society -- the show has made a commitment to increase representation and inclusion in the writers room.

gen:lock, which is executive produced by and stars Jordan, will follow recommendations based on the actor's own #ChangeHollywood initiative, which he established with civil rights nonprofit Color Of Change to put forth concrete, measurable solutions for Hollywood to affirm, defend, and invest in Black lives..

Accordingly, Rooster Teeth notes that season two writers will include head writer Daniel Dominguez, as well as Maasai Singleton, Evan Narcisse, Kristle Peluso, and Gavin Hignight -- with representation extending across the Black, Latinx and Lgbtqia+ communities. The second season of gen:lock is slated to premiere on HBO Max, though a release date has not been announced.

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The Michael B. Jordan-starring animated series “Gen:Lock” has increased representation and inclusion in its writers room for the show’s upcoming second season, producers Rooster Teeth and Outlier Society have announced.

Daniel Dominguez, Maasai Singleton, Evan Narcisse, Kristle Peluso and Gavin Hignight make up the writers room for the second season of the series, which will premiere on HBO Max. The animated series takes place 50 years in the future amid an oppressive authoritarian regime that threatens to conquer the world; Jordan voices the series’ lead character Julian Chase and also serves as an executive producer.

“When I was a teenager I fell in love with anime because my imagination was always strange and hyperbolic, the way cartoons are,” said Dominguez, who serves as head writer on the new season, said in a statement. “I could not be more honored, and excited to have been given this opportunity to work...