May
14 Comicbook movie notes

* Intrepid Pictures has picked up the rights to "The Expendable One," a graphic novel by Jason Burns and Bryan Baugh published last year by Viper Comics. The graphic novel is about a young man who acquires immortality, or at least the ability to recover from any kind of damage to his body, and is recruited by a sexy, pink-stockings clad FBI agent to hunt down a serial killer. Intrepid has tapped Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles for screenplay duty, with Marc Evans and Trevor Macy producing.

* "The Incredible Hulk" is starting to take shape, with the casting of Liv Tyler as Betty Ross and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky, a.k.a. the Abomination.

* Mark Verheiden's "The Ark," which was serialized in the late 1990s in the anthology title "Dark Horse Presents," has been optioned by Columbia and Original Films. Verheiden, currently a co-exec producer on Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica," is set to write the script, with Original's Neal Moritz and Dark Horse Comics' Mike Richardson producing.