Mandeville Films adapt 'Crosshair'

Mandeville Films are to work with Top Cow Productions to adapt a forthcoming comic series from the publisher into a movie.

Crosshair was created by Mark Silvestri, and is being written by Jeff Katz with art by Silvestri and Allan Jefferson, reports ICv2.

It follows a former CIA agent turned suburban father who learns that he has 48 hours before a trigger buried in his brain orders him to assassinate the president.

Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce Crosshair alongside Katz, with Mandeville’s David Manpearl and Top Cow’s Silvestri and Matt Hawkins as executive producers.

The series will debut in October.