By Danica Davidson
John Woo, the director of Mission Impossible II, Face/Off and Broken Arrow, is turning his attention to a web series. In addition to his movie work, Woo created the graphic novel series Seven Brothers, which is now an animated show available online.
There will be thirteen episodes in all, and the first four have been released. New episodes will come out every two weeks at Machinima.
In the series, Chinese fleets traveled the globe six hundred years ago, wanting to go to every continent. Unfortunately, there was a dark side to this: an evil Chinese sorcerer laid out a plot to take over the world. Fast forward to the present, where seven men must come together to stop the evil brought on by the sorcerer and save the planet.
"For me, working in comics is quite comfortable - it's like the ultimate storyboard,” said Woo in an official press release. “The original Seven Brothers graphic novel, and this new animated comic book series, takes the seed of an idea I had about famous Chinese folklore to a whole new level. It creates a modern, global story, and an art form that is unique and yet, clearly, a brother to the film medium.”
Liquid Comics--which is also behind Stan Lee’s new comic Chakra The Invincible--teamed with Tiger Hill Entertainment to make this happen. “We are thrilled to work with John Woo and the teams at Machinima and Tiger Hill to bring this exciting story to audiences worldwide through digital platforms,” said Sharad Devarajan, Liquid Comics Co-Founder & CEO. “For Liquid, the future of comic books is about jumping from the printed page on to the digital screen and ‘John Woo’s Seven Brothers’ is the perfect project to launch our new line of animated web shows.”
Liquid Comics Co-Founder Gotham Chopra also spoke up. “Seven Brothers is a fusion of mythology and edge that only an icon like John Woo and the brilliant creative team behind Seven Brothers could pull off. It exemplifies how the best mythologies constantly transform and re-invent themselves when filtered through the imaginations of great artists,” he said.
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