The Vampire Asset: Horror action film described as Deadpool meets John Wick

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Code Entertainment, a financing and production company that has been behind such films as The Ice Road, Kill the Irishman, and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, has just spent a sum somewhere the mid six-figures to acquire writer Jonathan W. Stokes' spec script The Vampire Asset. Code Entertainment is putting this project, which is said to be along the lines of "Deadpool meets John Wick" (but with bloodsuckers), on the fast track toward production.

Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt will be producing the film, while Stokes serves as an executive producer alongside Scott Carr, Jonathan Dana, and Rich Freeman.

The "Deadpool meets John Wick" description came from Corley, who said, 

Jonathan Stokes has created marvelous characters and a highly commercial tale, in the vein of Deadpool meets John Wick. We think the story will resonate worldwide and we look forward to moving the project quickly toward production."

The Vampire Asset is looking to kick off a franchise with the action-packed story of 

a reluctant vampire who is recruited by the CIA to hunt down his former lover, the woman who turned him into an immortal killer, before she unleashes a global catastrophe.

The author of the Addison Cooke and A Handbook for Time Travelers book series, Stokes previously wrote and directed the films Air and Wildcat, and scripted the Eduardo Rodriguez / Scott Adkins movie El Gringo.

I'm not immediately sold on The Vampire Asset after reading its synopsis, because I feel that the mix of vampirism and spy adventure could be fun or terrible, depending on the execution. Hopefully the movie will live up to the "Deadpool meets John Wick" description and have scenes of an unkillable vampire tearing his way through an army of bad guys, because that would be awesome.

We'll keep you updated on The Vampire Asset as it moves forward.