MGM OPTIONS JONAS MOORE FOR TELEVISION
MGM Domestic Television Distribution has announced it has acquired an option to develop the Factory Publishing property The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore as a possible television series.
“The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is an exciting digital graphic novel that’s creating quite a sensation abroad,” said Chris Ottinger, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Television, MGM. “We see this as a great concept that will make an exciting series for worldwide audiences.”
“MGM is a great place for The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore,” said Howard Webster, creator, producer and director of the project for Factory Publishing in association with Triumph Motorcycles. “There has never been a black British action hero before and what appealed to me was that MGM understood this from the outset. Jonas Moore is sophisticated, educated, tough and uber-cool. He represents the next generation of intelligent action heroes of international sci-fi drama.”
Ruth Vitale of The Film Collective brought the project to MGM. She was instrumental in developing the television pitch with Webster. She is attached as an Executive Producer to the project, having worked with Webster for the last four years on Factory Magazine.
The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is a trilogy of second-generation graphic novels, which live online and are specifically designed for iPod and PC download.
Here’s how the concept is described:
“The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is set in a time where the British Empire has never ended and America is just one of thousands of virtual worlds hosted on a vast global game network. When Jonas Moore (portrayed online by British film and TV star Colin Salmon — Resident Evil, Die Another Day, Prime Suspect and the upcoming Punisher: War Zone, and Blood: The Last Vampire), a character personally created by the network’s founder, becomes self-aware he is tagged by the network as a virus and goes on the run. As he moves from one artificial game world to the next, his knowledge of the games and the real-world gamers spreads like a virus to the other game characters, freaks, creatures and monsters who live as slaves within the network - precipitating a revolution and fight for freedom against the murderously addicted real-world gamers. Worlds Apart lead singer Steve Hart wrote the score for the production and also stars in the online version.”
