Archer & Armstrong Movie Officially Announced With Bendavid Grabinski Writing

Writer BenDavid Grabinski, who recently teased to ComicBook.com that he was workin on a big superhero movie, will pen the upcoming film adaptation of Valiant's Archer and Armstrong, which has gone from "rumored" to "confirmed" today.

Valiant has partnered with the Sean Daniel Company, responsible for The Best Man Holiday and the upcoming reboots of The Mummy and Ben-Hur, for the production and funded Grabinski's script. The film will be produced by Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, and Dinesh Shamdasani.

Archer & Armstrong is an action-adventure/buddy comedy colliding a drunk, delinquent immortal who has given up on saving the world and the idealistic young man who needs him for a globetrotting quest to stop history?s oldest conspiracy from toppling modern civilization. It's reportedly based heavily on the recent comics by Fred Van Lente, with whom ComicBook.com did numerous commentary track-style interviews during the book's first two years. You can see them here.

"Archer & Armstrong is one of the greatest untapped franchises in comics, and BenDavid's script is delivering a vision for these characters that has made us all very, very excited,? said Sean Daniel. ?The movie is about the relationship between these two amazing characters, the comic clash between optimism and pessimism, and how family is the most important unifier. It combines globe-spanning action with BenDavid?s singular sense of humor, and is rooted in resonant themes that give it a powerful emotional core.?

The company previously announced that Shadowman, another award-winning franchise from Valiant's library of more than 1,750 comic book characters, was being adapted into a feature film. Screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski has been hired to adapt Shadowman with Valiant funding and producing alongside the Sean Daniel Company. Additionally, Bloodshot ? another Valiant property with sales in excess of 7 million copies to date ? has been optioned by Sony Pictures with Matthew Vaughn attached and a script by Jeff Wadlow. Valiant has partnered with Original Film for the project. Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe and Dinesh Shamdasani are producing.