EXCLUSIVE: Greg Silverman and Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures have snapped up the rights to screenwriter Umair Aleem’s new action-adventure spec script, The Paladin, which is being eyed as a franchise-starter, unfolding into a much larger, expansive universe.The Paladin is billed as Dr.
Strange meets Unforgiven, centering around a broken-down, last of his kind warrior-mage who undertakes a final quest to protect a child who has the power to save or destroy our world.Silverman and Berg will produce the feature with a plan to go into production next year.
The packaging of a star and filmmaker are currently underway.The Paladin comes on the heels of Aleem’s hard action feature, Kate, the 2017 Black list script which just premiered on Netflix
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