The Image Comics series Trees from writer Warren Ellis and artist Jason Howard has been ripe for development and that’s now starting to move forward as NBC Universal International Studios has optioned the rights to it. The studio has picked it up for Tom Hardy’s production company, Hardy Son & Baker, where they have a first-look deal with. This production company is currently working on adapting 100 Bullets for Warner Bros. as well.
No details about who will be involved in the adaptation have been revealed at the moment nor what kind of theatrical plans they may have for it.
We’ve been reviewing the comic series since it began, which you can read here.
Plot concept: Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no-one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they did not recognize us as intelligent or alive. TREES looks at a near-future world where life goes on in the shadows of the Trees: in China, where a young painter arrives in the “special cultural zone” of a city under a Tree; in Italy, where a young woman under the menacing protection of a fascist gang meets an old man who wants to teach her terrible skills; and in Svalbard, where a research team is discovering, by accident, that the Trees may not be dormant after all, and the awful threat they truly represent
