Valiant Comics fans rejoice! A Harbinger movie is officially on the way with Wes Ball set to direct. The Harbinger movie is in development at Paramount Pictures, with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings co-writer Andrew Lanham penning the most recent script.
Harbinger follows “a group of super-powered teens who rebel against the corporation that tried to harness their abilities for their own ends.”
The Harbinger movie was originally set up at Sony. The project has since moved to Paramount Pictures where Neal Moritz has a first-look deal. Ball’s Oddball Entertainment also has a first-look deal set up at the studio, proving once again that sometimes the stars do align.
Ball directed the Maze Runner franchise at 20th Century Fox, which grossed $948M+ at the global box office across all three films in the series. He’s also been appointed as the director of Disney’s upcoming Planet of the Apes reboot. Work on the Apes project is slow-going, but we understand that Ball and Josh Friedman are hard at work on the script.
Harbinger is Valiant Comics flagship series and features several of the comic label’s most popular characters. It shares more than a few things in common with Marvel’s X-Men franchise in that it revolves around a group of super-powered individuals fighting the forces of evil in a corrupt world. Another film based on a Valiant Comics property, Bloodshot, was released in 2020, near the start of the pandemic. Bloodshot starred Vin Diesel as Ray Garrison, a slain soldier who is re-animated with superpowers and manipulated by the same people who brought him back from the dead. As you can imagine, Garrison finds out that he’s being manipulated, and goes on a rampage to get revenge. It’s good stuff.
Are you a fan of Valiant Comics? Are you excited about Ball taking on the comic label’s Harbinger movie? Sound off in the comments section below and let us know what you think. Also, Valiant, I’m still waiting for that Doctor Mirage adaptation. Let’s get on that, yeah?