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Rodionoff wrote a draft for the "Tortured Souls" film. The film features the characters from the macabre action figure line created by Clive Barker and produced by McFarlane toys. "Tortured Souls" is in pre-production and rapidly moving forward. "Late last year, Clive made the decision that he wanted to direct 'Tortured Souls.' I just about fainted. It's such great news. I think fans have been waiting for Clive to get back behind the camera for a long time, and this story is perfect for him. Right now, Clive is tweaking the script. The last I heard, they were getting ready to turn in Clive's draft to the studio in the next few weeks. The basic plot of the movie concerns a man who decides to exchange his wife for a demon. The exchange sends his wife to a place called Primordium, where she must battle her way across a hostile landscape to try and get back home."
There were two series of "Tortured Souls" figures. Each figure came with a novella written by Barker detailing their story. Rodionoff used these novellas as the basis for his screenplay. "There is a core mythology of Primordium that's built in the novellas. That core mythology is respected and expanded. There are characters from both figure lines in the script. Fans of the action figures can expect to see some familiar faces, but there will also be things that will be new to everyone," he said.
Rodionoff has adapted comic books for the screen and recently one of his screenplays was adapted to comics. "Lovecraft" is a new hardcover graphic novel from Vertigo. It's based on a screenplay by Rodionoff that was adapted by comic scribe Keith Giffen and features art by Enrique Breccia. In "Lovecraft" the monstrous Elder Gods that legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote about are real and the writer is the only one aware of their existence.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds pretty cool. [img]smile.gif[/img]