"Some of these films will be based on properties we have published, and some will be wholely original ideas," said Mike Richardson, founder of Dark Horse Comics and Dark Horse Entertainment. "All told, we'll develop treatments for between eight and ten properties for consideration. From those we'll choose between three and five to be green-lighted into production."
"We're looking to Mike to deliver big, mainstream, commercial movies," said East, who also has forged partnerships between InterMedia and Kevin Costner's Tig Productions, Ridley Scott's Scott Free, and Renaissance Films.
Dark Horse currently has a number of projects in the works with other studios. Virus, a science fiction thriller being produced for Universal in conjunction with Gale Anne Hurd's Pacific Western Productions (Aliens, Terminator 2); also at Universal,The Green Hornet, a reworking of the classic radio, comic-book and television series, starring Jason Scott Lee; at Disney, Black Cross, an action adventure film based upon the Dark Horse comic created by Chris Warner. Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, The Shadow) is set to direct and Howie Long (Broken Arrow) is set to star. The film is best described as a "spaghetti western" set in the future. Black Cross is set for a March 1997 start date. The script is by Chris Warner and Steve Perry.