Heathen

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Director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Red Riding Hood, Thirteen) will helm the fantasy-adventure epic Heathen for Constatin Film and Prime Universe Films. The project adapts the namesake Vault Comics series that centers on Aydis, a fierce Viking warrior who is scorned by her village for kissing another woman and then, after witnessing widespread injustice toward women, declares a one-woman feminist war on Odin himself.

Created, written, and drawn by Alterici, the Heathen comics debuted in 2017 with the help of an impassioned Kickstarter investor community. The comics introduce Aydis, who is born into a time marked by war, strife, and the pervasive subjugation of women, and eventually takes on a mission to topple the ultimate patriarch, Odin, the god-king of Asgard and all-seeing father to a thunder-god named Thor. The Heathen comics depict risqué sequences (among them Aydis’ abduction by the Norse love goddess Freya) and a vivid gallery of female characters pulled from myth and antiquity but presented with a feminist revamp and a rollicking spirit. Lady pirates, vicious mermaids, and a cursed Valkyrie all cross paths with Aydis as she finds adventure and purpose with sword in hand.

Constantin Film’s Robert Kulzer & Margo Klewans will produce Heathens with Prime Universe Film’s Adrian Askarieh. F.J. DeSanto will also produce. Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz will executive produce with Vault CEO, Damian Wassel, and Hardwicke. Hardwick will direct off a script by Kerry Willamson, whose credits include Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross and the Netflix film What Happened to Monday? Williamson is at work now on an adaptation of the bestselling fantasy series Sandman Slim for director Chad Stahelski (John Wick films) and Studio 8.

Source: https://deadline.com/2019/07/heathen-ca ... 202652538/