Oh my, oh dear, and oh brother:
With R-rated comic book movies like Deadpool and Logan doing massively well at the box office, Paramount Pictures appears to be looking into their own hard R comic book adaptation. Deadline has the news, reporting that a The Pro movie is in the works, based on the 2002 one-shot from Image Comics and the creative team of writer Garth Ennis, the husband and wife art team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, and colorist Paul Mounts. Although the original article does not mention that an R rating is being targeted by Paramount, it’s hard to imagine the source material getting adapted any other way.
I’m probably not even supposed to know that this comic book exists. In 2009 Geek in the City called The Pro “One of the most vile, disgusting, perverse, and gut-numbingly hilarious comics of all time, let alone this decade;” and while I’m not sure about the ‘all time’ or ‘this decade’ thing it’s not… bad, for what it is. It’s just that I wouldn’t have guessed that Paramount would decide to make a mainstream movie out of it. Seriously, this might all end in tears. Or cows being catapulted through windows. Hard to say, really.
Moe Lane
PS: This link is to the Wikipedia entry, but still: think before you click through. And don’t click through at the office, unless your boss is cool.