Code Name: Zeus is a new comic book coming out from Graykin Entertainment, and it looks promising. What’s really interesting is they’re pushing to get the property made into a film – either live action or animated.
The comic has some back story to it: It’s set in the future, where governments have become super corporations, and Olympus Corp. wants to merge all of these companies into one. As it turns out, the power of the gods (such as Zeus) is bestowed on several younger and unwitting heroes:
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President Neoptolemus has begun to train and equip this group of young heroes to act as a security force for New Olympus. Leading the group is self-absorbed Sam Williams – a young man who manifests the King of the Greek gods.
Taking the code-name Zeus, Sam must master his own past to lead his team of deified avatars to uncover the mystery that threatens New Olympus and the very fabric of the universe.
We’re seeing this more and more: Comic book properties are being sent out to potential studios and producers in the hope that a film deal can be struck. Sometimes before a comic book even has too many issues shipping (like Mark Millar’s Kick Ass). No one can argue that superhero movies are hot, but sometimes it gets ridiculous.
Anyway, you can check out the special Code Name: Zeus trailer that was put together to help promote the comic and the potential movie:
Plus, check out this interview with Daniel Vest, the creator of Code Name: Zeus:
This looks fairly promising, and it might make a cool movie.
What do you think?
For more details and to download a preview copy of the comic, visit Graykin Entertainment.
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14 Comments
Very cool, I hope this gets made into a movie, would love to see these characters on the big screen, not enough is done with Greek mythology. FB
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That’s certainly a mixed group of kids. I would’ve thought they’d use Greek kids or something but I guess since this is the future and whtnot it doesn’t matter. Also would cut out the whole martial arts thing but once again this has no historical base other than the fact that they’re using old Greek God names. *sigh* No thanks I’ll pass.
I think this would make for a good cartoon TV show for kids.
CRAP, im supposed to believe this horrible trailer is supposed to inspire an awesome, kick ass movie. Green dreads? Once again, eye candy, no substance. Theres plenty of greek mythology based movies comic books and games. They just are creative enough to come up with different character names. Lame
Jackson: Bit harsh old boy. I think it looks cool.
Looks very creative to me.
Allow it to find it’s legs before bashing it.
Gets my vote.
I’ll admit it does look pretty over the top for a convincing, non-cheesy action flick.
Vic
Certainly looks interesting..
I would guess it’s targeted for the “tween” market.
Nice updated reference to mythology figures..
Awesome that Poseidon has green dreads and scales..
Sorry, [Jackson] but I don’t see a problem with that..
I grew up watching TMNT .. this is way cooler!
This looks awesome. I don’t believe I’ve seen anything like it before. Looking forward to it!
I think it’s mostly an ad for the comic book. I’ll check it out before I pass judgment on the comic.
heath
i think it is going to be a really great story. everything now base characters on vampires or other DC comics, where this one brings out the multi-cultural gods. This makes it more interesting because of the uniqueness of the characters.
i like the time span of the story as well – post apocolypse, corporations ruling, with a bunch of mythical god characters who save the Earth!
another thing is I like the generated medium. mixing art with computer rendering is pretty cool. Give it that life like appearance. Another example would be bungie with their Halo characters.
I think it is going to be a great thing. Can’t wait until it comes out.
When you look how well ben-10 and clone wars are executed as animated series(s) – this has a lot of potential.
Like the idea of introducing mythological “gods” from other cultures (Hindu, Egyptian, North American and Aztec) – great opportunity to learn about others’ beliefs, cultures, ancient myths.
It could be promising if the premise is dark and kick-ass enough, but the ten year-old super-smart kid (not to mention that he’s super-strong too!) has me seriously wondering. Far from the lame god at the forge, this Hephaestus seems to be a character deliberately designed to bring little kids to the theater. Also, the other characters seem to be a little too neat, clean, PC and, with the evil corporations thrown in, it all seems more like Captain Planet than the X-Men.
Don’t get me wrong — if you can make the ancient gods return in a plausible way and mix it up, it could be very cool, but Zeus sorta liking the secretary, Medusa being quiet and setting up Hermes as the brooding type — as highlights, yet — isn’t the sort of thing I’d go see. With gods, you can’t have mundane inanities, you need world-ending scenarios, death, horror and blood in the streets, apocalyptic visions, and towering inhuman perspectives. Anything less is a waste of the genre.
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