'Unthinkable' happens for Mandalay, Boom Studios

Mandalay Pictures has picked up the film rights to Boom! Studios’ action-thriller comic book “Unthinkable.”

Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman will produce via the Mandalay banner with Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby of Boom! 

Created and written by Mark Sable, “Unthinkable” centers on a brilliant man who was recruited just after 9/11 into a government think tank consisting of America’s most imaginative minds and tasked with dreaming up wild scenarios for possible attacks on U.S. soil. Years after the think tank was disbanded, the attacks the man concocted begin to occur, and he becomes the only one who can stop them. But the government has become his pursuer.

The book’s subject caused trouble this year for Sable, creator of the comics “Grounded” and “Fearless,” when he was detained by Los Angeles International Airport security guards who came across the script for one of the issues.

Mandalay vp Adam Stone will oversee for the company. The project was brought to Stone and Mandalay creative exec Lee Kramer by Sable at Comic-Con in July.

Mandalay’s pre-emptive pickup of “Unthinkable” is in line with Schulman’s modus operandi of developing internally before setting projects up with financiers and distributors. Mandalay’s recent options, the Max Barry novel “Machine Man” and Joe Hill book “Horns,” also are following that development track.

Mandalay has the Untitled Elephant Project with New Line; “When Dads Were Men,” with Mike McCullers attached to direct, at CBS Films; and “Sinatra,” with Martin Scorsese attached, at Universal, where the company has a first-look deal.

Comic and production company Boom! has its books “Talent,” “Tag” and “2 Guns” set up at Universal. Its “North Wind” was acquired by David Entertainment, and “Station” was picked up by CBS Films.

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