Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore
8/20/08 - MGM Domestic Television Distribution has acquired an option to develop The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, a Web-based graphic novel series, as a possible TV show. Factory Publishing produces The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore in association with Triumph Motorcycles; Howard Webster is the series' creator, producer and director.  Ruth Vitale of The Film Collective brought the project to MGM. She was instrumental in developing the television pitch with Webster. She is attached as an executive producer, having worked with Webster for the last four years on Factory Magazine.  The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is a trilogy of second-generation graphic novels, which live online and are specifically designed for iPod and PC download. Set in a time where the British empire has never ended and America is just one of thousands of virtual worlds hosted on a vast global game network, the show centers on Moore (Colin Salmon), a virtual game character who becomes self-aware. Tagged by the network as a virus, he goes on the run, and as he moves from one artificial game world to the next, his knowledge of the games and the real-world gamers spreads like a virus to the other game characters, freaks, creatures and monsters who live as slaves within the network.

AlienAlmanac.com 2008