The rush to adapt comic books shows no sigh of abating, it’s just shifting from superhero genre staples like Fantastic Four to more obscure titles no one except a scant few even know exist much less care about. For instance Variety says Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pics have just picked up the rights to a series of graphic novels called “Couriers” with the intent of turning them into a feature film.
The books are set in a near-future New York City where they follow two gun-toting mercenary couriers named Moustafa and Special. It’s their job to carry questionable items more reputable couriers can’t handle with their spandex pants and ten-speed bicycles. They’ll run money, gather intelligence, and even do the occasional assassination.
Actually, it sounds a little like The Transporter doesn’t it?
Television writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach has been hired to adapt it. He should have an easy time of it, since the comics are supposed to be primarily action-oriented and the plan is to make the movie the same. The script will probably consist of a lot of directions on where to point the guns. Javier is capable of more than that, having written for shows like ‘Lost’, ‘The Dead Zone’, and ‘Sequest’ but don’t expect another Jake/Kate/Sawyer love triangle in Couriers. Though perhaps he could work in a complex relationship between a boy and his talking dolphin.
