However, his throat is slit by a bully, Morgan, causing him to spend the next year hospitalized. At age 16, the young robotics student Nathaniel develops a working Growing Man stimuloid model. Nathaniel Richards of Earth-616, attempting time travel, reached Other-Earth and settled there he used his knowledge to help rebuild that world and married Cassandra, daughter of the Matriarch of the Eyriennes. He became known as both the Warlord (erroneously) and the Benefactor.Īpproximately 1900 years later, in the calendar year 3000, Nathaniel Richards’ descendant and namesake was born into an age of peace and enlightenment thanks to his ancestor’s efforts. After a peaceful era, during which a lunar colony was established, a Great War between the colony and Earth destroyed the moon and plunged Other-Earth back into a primitive state.

Their timeline having diverged circa 300 AD, the people of Other-Earth made their first moon landing in 900 AD, which became the first year of their new calendar. In this reality, the Dark Ages never occurred and technology developed without interruption. Nathaniel Richards was born in the alternate timeline Earth-6311, aka Other-Earth. Studiocanal’s Ron Halpern will oversee Killer.The time-traveling despot Kang the Conqueror is aptly named, using all his resources and technology from the future to rule as many universes as possible while there’s still time. Morel is also repped by Sentient, while Wood is additionally repped by manager Luke Speed of Marjacq. He made his debut with District B13, the movie that brought parkour into the mainstream.ĬAA reps Morel and Wood. Morel is best known for directing Taken, which reinvented Liam Neeson as an action hero. Sentient, meanwhile, is the director-focused management-production company that packaged and produced Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg‘s latest outing that netted Julianne Moore a best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s also the third pairing for Rona and Heineman with Studiocanal it follows Non-Stop, one of Studiocanal’s biggest action hits, and Gunman, which Open Road is due to release Feb. The deal marks the first for Rona’s and Heineman’s newly formed Picture Company and the first under its pact with Studiocanal. And it launched an acclaimed series for Wood, whose real name is Tom Hinshelwood. While the plot is something spy-thriller fans may have seen before - a hitman on the run, chased and double-crossed by many parties - the book was widely praised for having a charismatic lead and for the creativity of the relentless action. MIPTV: Belgian Real-Life Thrillers 'The Crash,' '1985' Sell for Europe, Australia

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