As superhero movies continue to overlook at the box office , everyone is looking for the next braggart slant . And Shawn Levy , director of Real Steel and Night at the Museum , may have found it — with Brandon Sanderson ’s book trilogy about malefic superheroes , The Reckoners .
Levy and twentieth Century Fox own the rightfulness to the series — record our review of the first Quran in the serieshere , and our excerpt from the third bookhere . And they just hired writer Carter Blanchard ( Independence Day Resurgence ) to adapt the first installment , Steelheart .
This series has an awesome spin on the superhero theme , incorporate a post - revelatory element . Basically , some kind of event give a pocket-sized percentage of the globe superpowers . These masses , nicknamed Epics , then take over the public . As human being with ability tend to do . Now a arise group of normal humans , call in the Reckoners , are trying to fight back . The chief character reference , David , saw the most powerful Epic , Steelheart , obliterate his beginner and now he ’s the only person who knows the Epic ’s weaknesses .
So , the superheroes are the bad guys , and the humans are fighting back . Which is a swell crook on the genre . It ’s not a revolutionary one by any means , but it could be just the right claw to freshen up the musical style and kick off a whole new franchise . Or , it could settle flat like so many films that attempt to screw with such a tried and true formula .
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