Illuminati -The Movie And Comic Book

Sci-Fi Talk Guest and Community member David Winning will be directing Kevin Sorbo in the new project Illuminati which he mentioned to us on a recent podcast.

According to the Today MovieSet Blog Kevin Sorbo will atttend Comic Con 2009 to talk about the film, comic book and a video game all based on the Illuminati premise. Following the release of the four-issue comic book series release and the subsequent video game, currently in production by Manifest Games, Sorbo hopes the feature film, only then to be released, will spurn his next big television series.

The comic is being penned by Sharron Scott, the self-confessed “genre girl” who also authored More Than Mortal, Tales of the Darkness and The Witch Finder.

In The Illuminati Kevin Sorbo plays Thomas Mant, a battle-hardened martial arts warrior who serves as the enforcer to the secretive group. Mant is a cold-blooded killer thanks to the lifelong training process known as “partitioning” which buries all human feelings, leaving the practitioner absolutely faithful to his superiors and also immune to feeling any emotion or sympathy to his targets. But when a coup takes place within the Illuminati Mant is forced to fight against his mentor and his partitioning begins to shatter. Now on the run and forced to confront his burgeoning humanity, Mant starts to assess what he has done and what he holds within his power to do to save himself from assassination.

The movie is currently scheduled for release in late 2009 but right now MovieSet is the only place where you can have a three-page preview of the forthcoming comic book series based on the screenplay with artwork by Dietrich Smith, plus we got Kevin to sign his John Henry on a piece of promo artwork for the comic. Enjoy the preview!

http://blog.movieset.com/2008/11/10/exclusive-first-look-at-the-ill...