'Conan' Director Marcus Nispel Produces Comic Series 'The Chosen'

EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Nispel, whose Conan the Barbarian reboot opens today, makes an offer with Liquid Comics to produce the comic series The Selected. The plotline involves a Detroit kid who appears an unlikely candidate but who's the most recent incarnate of the Eastern spiritual master whose tradition dates back decades. The teen's awakening to those asweom forces which have been refined on the century's price of incarnations, start to manifest themselves and take him on the journey in the Detroit roads towards the subterranean gangland of Mumbai. Nispel produced the storyling with Liquid co-founders Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan. It's according to an authentic movie treatment that Nispel continues to be developing to direct. The 3-problem comic series will launch in Feb. "I love movies that become graphic books and graphic books that become movies," Nispel stated inside a statement. "Everything I direct begins with illustrations, and also the pictures tell the storyline.Inch Stated Chopra: "Marcus' vision of the muscled up Kung Fu continues to be something I have loved because the moment he first explained the storyline. The Master-Apprentice narrative from King Arthur to John Connor is really a formula that actually works with Marcus onboard something extremely creative is emerging."