

800 years later in 21st-century New York (actually Pittsburgh), where witches live among the humans and have made a truce to never use magic on them, Kaulder is the last of his witch-hunting kind. Then, right before he slays the witch, she curses him once more with her own immortality. THR Movies News Elizabeth Rayne Malignant Man - 05:52 James Wan Brad Peyton Boom! Studios.In a dark period during the 13th century, valiant warrior Kaulder (Vin Diesel) was cursed twofold by the Witch Queen (Julie Engelbrecht), who killed most of mankind, including Kaulder's wife and daughter, with the Black Plague. No release date for Malignant Man has been released yet since it is still in development, but the prognosis looks positive. Irredeemable, has just snagged director Adam McKay, and The Empty Man is currently in preproduction.

Meanwhile, Boom! has been revving up several of its smash graphic novels to take the leap from printed page to big screen. We wait to see just where the film will land on Peyton's busy slate, given that he's also got Rampage, Journey 3 and San Andreas 2 in various stages of development. Executive producing with Wan are Peyton and his partner Jeff Fierson, with Boom! Studios’ Adam Yoelin, Stephen Christy and Ross Richie co-producing and Matt Reilly and Ryan Jones overseeing for Fox. Wan, who has just come off the second installments of The Conjuring and Insidious, will be producing Malignant Man under his Atomic Monster label. He is assigned to fight an evil army creeping under the skin of society, as he slowly unravels secrets about his path that lead to the truth about what seems to be a symbiotic connection between him and the parasite. Not unlike like the genetically engineered spiders that bite Peter Parker and turn him into a web-slinging superhuman, the alien bloodsucker mutates Gates into something of a hybrid hero with a new lease on life. What he thought was a tumor is actually an alien parasite that has been unknowingly giving Gates a transfusion of paranormal powers. Malignant Man is the story of terminal cancer patient Alex Gates, who believes that a malignant tumor is gnawing away at what days he has left until he finds out the even more ghastly truth. He'll be teaming up with James Wan to co-direct Malignant Man, the Boom! Studios graphic novel about a cancer-patient-turned-mutant-hero which Wan co-wrote and Fox is adapting to film. San Andreas director Brad Peyton will be taking on disasters of a more supernatural kind for his new project.

Facebook twitter google+ Brad Peyton will be directing Malignant Man, for producer James Wan.
