EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Wu (American Born Chinese language, Badlands) is co-writing and creating a comic book guide collection with Surprise, DC and Valiant veteran artist Sean Chen, with plans to evolve the valuables for movie and TV starring Wu.
The undertaking will debut by means of Kickstarter on September 19.
Evermind, from 247 Comics, tells the tale of lost sight of innovator Lucas Zhang (whose likeness is encouraged via Wu) who has labored his complete lifestyles to push humanity past the limits of bodily boundaries together with his fantastic tendencies in neurolink era, however his quest for luck has come at a value. Now in a determined try to save his personal humanity—and the lifetime of his simplest kid—Zhang unleashes an impressive new era this is too unhealthy to be depended on. Now Zhang is promoting out and cashing in, and his patented masterworks are serving simplest two functions—destruction and need.
“As a minority lead actor, regardless of your degree of earlier luck or notable roles, in Hollywood there are simplest such a lot of portions you will be introduced. So, I were given to pondering, why must I wait round for that subsequent alternative, after I may simply create and outline it for myself?” shared Wu in a observation to Time limit.
He endured, “I discovered the easiest collaborator in Sean, as a result of he had two characters he have been drawing for years, nevertheless it was once this partnership that helped construct out the backstory, the sector, and the motivations of the characters themselves. The most efficient a part of beginning this adventure in comics is that we aren’t confined via the similar form of funds that prohibits movie and tv. Kickstarter provides us the chance to end up the viability of this belongings for more than one mediums, and produce fanatics alongside for all the experience.”
Added Chen, “At its middle, Evermind is ready two other folks—a scientist father and his teenage daughter—who’re pushed aside via contrasting ideology after which pressured in combination via fantastic instances. I used to be in reality impressed via the tale of Steve Jobs and his afflicted dating together with his daughter, which was once difficult and nuanced, and is going such a lot deeper than, ‘You had been by no means there!’ This dating is the tale engine that performs out in opposition to a sequence of occasions the place you wonder whether the gulf between them will ever be closed and what’s going to be the destiny of the daddy’s soul.”
