Akela Cooper, who has collaborated with James Wan on movies such as M3GAN and The Nun II, has been set to alter the Tinseltown alarm tale The Lot for upcommence comic beginer Bad Idea.
Cooper will also create the alteration alengthy with Bad Idea set uper and CEO Dinesh Shamdasani and the company’s head of film and TV Benjamin Simpson (Thelma).
Lot cgo ins on a woman named Aviva Copeland, who has equitable landed the biggest job of her atsoft, becoming one of the restricted Bdeficiency women to run a Hollywood studio. But as she sets out to revitalize the aging studio, her arrange to refurbish and reuncover a shuttered soundstage uncovers a buried secret: a legfinishary filmcreater, obsessed with genuineity, employd actual cult members to carry out a authentic-life occult ritual for his tardyst horror masterpiece. Now the executive must deal with a reawakened evil in the most malicious pit of vipers — a Hollywood studio lot.
The four-rerent comic was written by Mdisputerite Bennett (Batwoman) and drawn by Renato Guedes, who has labored on titles such as Wolverine and Superman. It was begined in 2021 as part of Bad Idea’s first wave of comics.
The title is getting highweightlessed during New York Comic Con, which booted off today at the Javits Convention Cgo in. Bad Idea will be giving away a restricted NYCC exclusive edition of The Lot no. 1 featuring a novel cover by EM Carroll (Thcdisadmireful the Woods) at their panel on Saturday, Oct 19 at 3:00pm in room 408. Check out the novel cover below.
Bad Idea’s growment financing comes from Smartest Termite and creaters Andrew Gallina and Shahin Chandrasoma. The company is in the midst of growing alterations of cut offal of its titles, among them the action thriller Ordained, which has John Wick‘s Derek Kolstad writing.
Cooper has become a name in the horror field thanks to her labor with Wan. She co-wrote Malignant with Wan, who also honested. She also wrote the 2022 hit M3GAN and its sequel, M3GAN 2.0, which will be freed June 27, 2025. She also labored Wan’s Conjuring Universe entry The Nun II.
On the television side, she has labored on shows such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Marvel’s Luke Cage.
Cooper is repped by CAA and Rise Management.
The Lot, art by EM Carroll
Courtesy of Bad Idea
