Today MovieSet sat down with Hercules and Andromeda star Kevin Sorbo to learn about his new sci-fi/action movie The Illuminati. We also had the opportunity to interview the film’s director, David Winning, and we’ll have those two exclusive video interviews on the site in a little while. For now we want to debut the world’s first look at the comic book tie-in series that will accompany the film and tell you what it’s all about.
To help publicize the soon-to-be-filming movie, Sorbo will be a guest at Comic Con 2009 to talk about the film, comic book and a video game all based on the Illuminati premise. Sorbo, who has never attended the conference for either Hercules or Andromeda, told MovieSet that this time around he will be there in person to see the comic get started.
Following the release of the four-issue comic book series release and the subsequent video game, currently in production by Manifest Games, Sorbo hopes the feature film, only then to be released, will spurn his next big television series.
The comic is being penned by Sharron Scott, the self-confessed “genre girl” who also authored More Than Mortal, Tales of the Darkness and The Witch Finder.
“I am so excited about this project,” she said. “It’s a really unusual situation when the director of the film and the writer of the comic can collaborate like this.”
In The Illuminati Kevin Sorbo plays Thomas Mant, a battle-hardened martial arts warrior who serves as the enforcer to the secretive group. Mant is a cold-blooded killer thanks to the lifelong training process known as “partitioning” which buries all human feelings, leaving the practitioner absolutely faithful to his superiors and also immune to feeling any emotion or sympathy to his targets. But when a coup takes place within the Illuminati Mant is forced to fight against his mentor and his partitioning begins to shatter. Now on the run and forced to confront his burgeoning humanity, Mant starts to assess what he has done and what he holds within his power to do to save himself from assassination.
The movie is currently scheduled for release in late 2009 but right now MovieSet is the only place where you can have a three-page preview of the forthcoming comic book series based on the screenplay by Mark Sevi with artwork by Dietrich Smith, plus we got Kevin to sign his John Henry on a piece of promo artwork for the comic. Enjoy the preview!
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Who wrote the movie script? Sharon?
Gena
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Mark Sevi wrote the screenplay for “Illuminati”. That information has now been included within the body of the original post. As for who wrote the script for the comic, I’m looking into that question and hope to have an answer shortly.
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Thanks for including me in the mention of the screenplay. The comic book script is being adapted from the screenplay by the wondrous and talented Sharon Scott. Her husband, Matt Scott, is producing the comic under the Manifest Comics imprint.
Best,
Mark
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Kevin Sorbo is really loved in Brazil by kids and elders because of Hercules and Andromeda. The team for this project is great! We´re looking forward to watch this movie and read the Comics , which – I´m pretty sure – is going to be a HUGE SUCCESS!!!
Thank you!
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I am really looking forward to this movie. It will be quite interesting to see Kevin play a character with no emotions-very different from anything he’s done before. The comic artwork is great,too-look forward to it’s release!
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I’m really happy with this new project. I do wish watching it soon, coming next year.
Kevin Sorbo has lots of fans here in Brazil, and we all hope this new movie be a big success. I’ sure it will be!
Thanks a lot!
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Sharon is awesome! I cannot wait to get the comic at Comic-Con!!
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Good try by Hollywood, this movie that they want everyone tobelieve is trully SCIFI.
The fact that the “Illuminati” is very. If one goes into the rabbit’s hole you will see just how far and deep the “Illuminati” really is. I would first start with going to “goggle” then keying in ‘Illuminati” Good Luck ! SOL
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It should be no surprise how far the Illuminati will go to gain control of the world.
Here is a book that will detail the mind control techniques used by the illuminati to create mind control slaves.
These are TRUE MIND CONTROL SLAVES that are being made and used for drug mules, international assassins, sex slaves, suicide bombers and secret messengers. This could be anyone, from your congressman to your cable guy.
It is 350 pages of detail descriptions with illustrations.
http://mindcontrolpublishing.com/book_illuminati.html
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