Studio8 has picked up the film rights to adapt the indie comic Black into a feature with comics writers Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 on board to produce.
Black is set in a United States where only African-Americans possess superpowers. The discovery is made when a Brooklyn teen named Kareem Jenkins is racially profiled and shot by police.
He lives to tell the truth of the crime committed on him by the police and connects with others who share similar powers and uncovers a wide conspiracy to keep the knowledge of such superpowers from the world – especially African-American.
Studio8 has a distribution deal with Sony Pictures which will likely release it.
