I’ll admit, the idea behind Dark Horse Comics’ “Fear Agent” sounds like a bang-up fun adventure, though I’m not sure how they’re going to pull this thing off. The budget would have to be pretty huge considering the comic’s premise, which sees the hero going around the galaxy fighting aliens and what have you. At the moment, Dark Horse Entertainment (“Hellboy”, “30 Days of Night”) is teaming up with Universal to get the movie made, which is currently in the early stages of development — i.e. they still need to get a script together.
The news comes from THR’s Risky Biz Blog:
“Agent” centers on a colorful, borderline alcoholic astronaut named Heath Huston, a Texan who works as a so-called fear agent, the last of a dwindling breed of spacemen whose mission it is to fight threats to the planet Earth, which is partly destroyed during the course of the series.
The property emphasizes a kind of in-your-face adventure as Huston hops around the galaxy fighting various alien species and threats.
Rick Remender penned the series, which began life in 2005 as an Image Comics property before moving to Dark Horse the following year.
Rick Remender is also the writer of another sci-fi comic series, “Gigantic”, about a Earthling who returns to Earth after spending most of his life in outer space fighting in arenas as a souped up gladiator.
