Seth Rogen producing adaptation of killer meme comic Memetic

January 28th 2020, 3:15pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Seth Rogen will produce an adaptation of the graphic novel MEMETIC from THE BATMAN screenwriter Mattson Tomlin for Lionsgate. Rogen produces with Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Josh Fagen, Ross Richie, and Stephen Christy. Fagen and Adam Yoelin will serve as executive producers.

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Based on the Boom! Studios graphic novel of the same name by James Tynion IV and Eryk Donovan, it follows this rundown:

WARNING: This meme will end civilization.

Meme is an idea that starts with an individual, and then spreads to multiple persons and potentially entire societies. Richard Dawkins suggests a meme’s success comes from its effectiveness to the host. But history shows that destructive memes can spread just as rapidly through society. MEMETIC shows the progression of a weaponized meme that leads to the utter annihilation of the human race within 72 hours. The root of this apocalypse is a single image on the internet, a “meme” in the popular sense. A meme that changes everything. MEMETIC shows the true terror of the internet. The world will end not with a bang, but with a single online image when creator and writer James Tynion IV (THE WOODS, Batman Eternal) teams up with newcomer Eryk Donovan (In the Dark Horror Anthology, House in the Wall) to bring horror to a whole new generation.

MEMETIC creator James Tynion IV's comic SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN has sold over 50,000 copies since September.

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This news comes on the heels of word that Rogen and LIGHTS OUT and ANNABELLE: CREATION director David F. Sandberg will adapt Rick Remender's sci-fi comic FEAR AGENT as a series for Amazon. Sandberg will direct the pilot episode from a script written by Mattson Tomlin.

On top of directing the FEAR AGENT pilot, Sandberg will also serve as one of the show's executive producers along with Rogen, Remender, Tolmach, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, David Manpearl, Lotta Losten, and co-creator Tony Moore. Josh Fagen oversees for Rogen's Point Grey (THE BOYS, PREACHER). Amazon won the rights to FEAR AGENT following a competitive bidding war with the likes of Peacock, HBO Max, and TNT.