Mark Long has teamed with screenwriter and director Chris McQuarrie (the mind behind The Usual Suspects and Jack Reacher) to craft the pilot for Rubicon: The Beginning, a webseries that tells a story leading into the graphic novel from Archaia on which the pair worked.In the graphic novel, five paramilitary Navy SEAL operators defend the residents of a remote mountain farming village in Afghanistan from attacks by marauding Taliban. Led by the war-weary Hector, the operators and villagers form mutual bonds of honor and respect leading up to a climactic battle where the “Lions of Panjshir” are desperately outnumbered. Based on a story concept by McQuarrie, Rubicon is a modern re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai set within the lens of the Afghan conflict and given dramatic authenticity by co-writers Long (author of The Silence of Our Friends and Shrapnel) and Dan Capel (a founding member of SEAL Team Six).Rubicon: The Beginning picks up shortly before the events of the graphic novel, and revolves around a character who dies early in the comic, giving depth and texture to a seemingly-throwaway character and helping to explain how his life and death informed and motivated the events of the original story.Long joined ComicBook.com to talk with us about Rubicon: The Beginning, and to share the pilot, which went live via Machinima last week (you can see it embedded below).
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