Genre: Horror/Action/Superhero.
Studio:
Unknown.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase: Pre-script stage.
Who's In It:
Unknown.
Who's Making It:
Unknown. Based on the Image comic book series Darkchylde created by Randy Queen.
Premise: Beautiful, withdrawn and painfully shy, seventeen-year-old Ariel Chylde had started to believe this time it would be different. Although her father remained as cold and indifferent to her as he ever had, Ariel dared hope that the smiles and attention from the handsome Perry Stodgmill foretold of happier times. Graduating from high school. Making new friends. And above all, moving as far away from her father's dark reach as she could. Here in the small town of Salem, Georgia, it almost seemed possible that she may be able to escape her nightmares -- perhaps the dark shapes and horrifying creatures that haunted her slumber would vanish away like bad dreams should.
It was never to be.
Late one night Ariel's father enters her room to assault her again -- but now she unleashes a terrible form of revenge upon him. Ariel has discovered the ability to transform herself during moments of crisis into the beings from her nightmares, beings that she sometimes cannot control after manifesting their shapes. Offered sanctuary by a clandestine military research center known as the Sentry (and overseen by Perry's father), Ariel soon finds that otherworldly forces, some with dark plans, others with as-yet unrevealed motives, have begun to seek the power she now wields. She has become the Darkchylde.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: Unknown.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
September 10, 1998... Our scooper was the first to tell us that Randy Queen's Darkchylde is being considered by at least one studio for development as a feature film. Digging a little bit deeper, CA has learned that Queen is being represented by ZIDE Management. In the last few months, ZIDE Entertainment has, seemingly out of nowhere, aquired the rights to some of today's best-selling new titles, including Wildstorm's Danger Girl (now set up at New Line Cinema), DC/Vertigo's Transmetropolitan as well as representing Vertigo's top-selling writer, Garth Ennis (who's movie version of Preacher has been optioned by director Rachel Talalay). At the present time, no script has been written but the property is definitely attracting interest from the movie studios.
Darkchilde appeared as a five-issue series in 1997 and spawned a number of one-shot specials (perhaps best known for Queen's illustrations of the, uh, very charismatic title character.) A new on-going series is set to debut shortly. [Thanks to anonymous for the lead.]