Chariots of the Gods - Is an adaption needed or wanted?

Paradox Entertainment has acquired screen rights to the 1968 controversial best-seller"Chariots of the Gods" reports Variety.

Having sold 68 million copies worldwide over the past few decades, Erich von Daniken's book explores evidence that different ancient civilizations were visited by extraterrestrials.

That premise will be turned into a science fiction film. The idea has already formed the basis of various films and television from the "Stargate" franchise to the most recent "Indiana Jones" adventure and we all know how that turned out

Paradox controls the Robert E. Howard estate and is developing a movie version of "Conan" with Millennium Films.

Not sure whether a Chariots of the Gods adaption is a good or a bad thing. It has been around for ages and has been used many times before. At the moment I'm not too excited about the whole thing.

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Paradox - Where magic rules and Kevin Sorbo finds a bullet

Christos Gage's graphic novel Paradox is in production with Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journey, Bitch Slap, Andromeda) as the lead.

“When they first mentioned Kevin Sorbo — he obviously has a great following [and is] a great actor — but we pictured Hercules with the long hair, and Ruth [Gage] and I weren’t sure if this guy is a hard-boiled, Homicide detective,” Gage told MTV News. “But when we first saw the stills of him, his hair is cut normal length, he’s wearing a trench coat, a fedora, he’s got that great face with the square jaw. He looks fantastic — like a ’40s film-noir guy.”

Gage’s Paradox started out as a feature film collaboration with his wife Ruth Fletcher Gage, but midway through the process they decided that doing it as a comic was a better idea, and published it through Arcana Studios. Arcana later brought it to Legacy Filmworks as a feature film project.

The story turns Gage’s experience with police procedural on its head, placing main character Sean Nault (Sorbo), a Homicide detective on a parallel Earth where magic powers everything instead of electricity and batteries. The movie follows Nault as he investigates strange murders committed without the use of magic — but instead, with science.

“They’ve never seen a bullet, their guns don’t fire bullets, they fire magical energy,” said Gage. “There is no gunpowder. So he has to research how this weapon works. What are these powder burns around the wound? It’s brand new for them, and soon he realizes that someone is using science to create a gateway to our world — the world of science.”

Paradox is currently in post-production in Vancouver where Gage hopes they will have a trailer ready for San Diego’s Comic Con International this year.

I've not read the comic but I really like the sound of that concept. What about you?

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