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Ratner Reads Through Harbinger
Harbinger
Harbinger for Paramount and Ratner
Though I can't call Ratner's last attempt at adapting a comicbook, X-Men 3, a great success, it looks like Harbinger might give the director another chance. Though he hasn't signed anything just yet, Paramount has him in mind to direct. Either way, Ratner will still be onboard to produce.
Created by Jim Shooter, the Harbinger comicbook series was an immediate hit when first published in the 1990s. Harbingers are humans with powers that can be unlocked by "omega" harbingers. Teenager Pete Stanchek finds himself on a collision course with an older "omega" who used his gifts to become an evil industrialist.
"The movie is in the vein of a young Blade Runner, as this 17-year- old gifted kid helps other kids tap into these parts of their brains," producer Alexandra Milchan said.
While Milchan remains confident, fantasy films involving 'gifted kids' have let me down more often than not. Take The Seeker for example.
Brett Ratner has been dying to start a superhero franchise from scratch, and Harbinger is the perfect property for just that. While the director continues to work on other projects including Playboy, a film about magazine founder Hugh Hefner, scribes will be working on Harbinger's script.
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