ZOMBIELAND Director Set to Helm the Action-Comedy Adaptation of ARCHER & ARMSTRONG
Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is set to take on the big screen adaptation of Valiant Entertainment's action-comedy comic book Archer & Armstrong. I've never read the comic, but was published in 1992 and it was created by former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, Wolverine: Weapon X writer and artist Barry Windsor-Smith, and comic book writer and artist Bob Layton, who is best know for his work on Marvel Comics titles such as Iron Man and Hercules.
I've heard a lot of great things about this comic series, and it seems like it would make for a great film. If you're not familiar with it, here's an official plot description:
After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family’s sect – locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he’ll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past’s greatest threat!
Terry Rossio has been hired to write the film. He has spent a lot of his time in Hollywood working on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and was most recently brought in to lead the writer's room for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla and King Kong MonsterVerse.
After doing a little research on this comic, it seems like the kind of material that leans more toward something like Deadpool, which is what audiences are prime for right now. It seems like a project that I'd enjoy, and I can see Fleischer doing some fun things with it.