{"id":323,"date":"2009-07-14T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-07-14T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:02:49","slug":"rick-remenders-fear-agent-in-development-at-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/14\/rick-remenders-fear-agent-in-development-at-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Remender&#8217;s FEAR Agent in development at Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/Comics_Art_and_Illustration_fear_agent.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/fear_agent.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FEAR Agent \" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"12\" width=\"240\" height=\"369\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-top:-4px;margin-right:-12px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rick Remender&#8217;s FEAR Agent &#8211; the comic book tales of Heath Huston, hard-drinking alien exterminator in a retro future &#8211; is being developed for the screen at Universal. I&#8217;ve liked the series, and not only for its occasional homage to Wally Wood (or to Jeff Brewer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrockets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Cool Rockets<\/em><\/a>, for that matter).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Right out of the gate the stories had me going when Heath, in the middle of a pitched battle with aliens, was trying to figure out if they were intelligent enough that he&#8217;d get prosecuted for killing them. It&#8217;s a difficult future this guy has to contend with.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The series started at Image Comics and then made a slightly unusual sidestep over to Dark Horse. I wondered at the time whether this might have something to do with Dark Horse&#8217;s media contacts, and maybe I was right to wonder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s early days, but this film &#8211; if it makes it through the gauntlet &#8211; could be loads of cliffhanging, drunken fun with Heath and his intelligent spaceship roaming the galaxy and getting into trouble. The news appears at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riskybusinessblog.com\/2009\/07\/dark-horse-fear-agent-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risky Biz<\/a> blog, and my thanks go to to <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/07\/universal-to-develop-fear.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sci Fi Wire<\/a> for pointing me that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Remender&#8217;s FEAR Agent &#8211; the comic book tales of Heath Huston, hard-drinking alien exterminator in a retro future &#8211; is being developed for the screen at Universal. I&#8217;ve liked the series, and not only for its occasional homage to Wally Wood (or to Jeff Brewer&#8217;s Cool Rockets, for that matter). Right out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}