The same goes for the other animals represented: a snake, a passel of fierce crabs.

It helps immensely that his mice look like mice - just bipedal, clothed, tool-wielding and intelligent. Petersen does a marvelous job of anthropomorphizing the mice without making them cloying or cutesy. And just so there’s no confusion, Mouse Guard isn’t a nickname or colloquialism - the protagonists really are mice, the small, furry rodent kind. So goes the basic plot of Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, a graphic novel collection of Petersen’s award-winning comic. Whitta, who counts the Denzel Washington thriller The Book of Eli amongst his credits, is repped by UTA, Circle of Confusion and Behr & Abramson Reeves is repped by CAA, 3 Arts and Jackoway Tyerman Boom! is repped by Matt Saver and Petersen is repped by attorney Matt Sugarman.The year is 1152, treachery is afoot, and the Mouse Guard, defenders of all mice, must suss out the traitor in their midst before the Guard is destroyed. The company, which enjoys perhaps the largest IP library outside of Marvel and DC, also has adaptations of its hit comics Lumberjanes and James Wan’s Malignant Man in development at Fox. Mark Roybal will oversee for the studio.īoom! is prepping its first production, The Empty Man, which will star James Badge Dale and is set to begin shooting in August. A new series titled Mouse Guard: The Weasel Wars is expected to launch next year.Īdam Kassan will executive produce for 6th & Idaho, and Boom!’s Adam Yoelin and David Petersen will co-produce. It is considered one of the most successful independent comic book franchises of the last decade, with three volumes of the main series, three volumes of a spinoff series Mouse Guard: Legend of the Guard and a Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game published. The series, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and hails from Boom!’s imprint Achaia, has almost one million copies in print and has been translated into 10 languages. Jeremy Renner Shares Positive Messages During Road to Recovery: 'The Body Is Miraculous'Ĭreated, written and illustrated by Petersen, Mouse Guard tells of anthropomorphic mice set in medieval times, focusing on a brotherhood of mice that is sworn to protect the common folk.

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