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"Top Cow Productions has announced a movie adaptation of The Darkness at San Diego Comic-Con. CEO Marc Silvestri invited Dave Manpearl of production partner Mandeville Films onto the stage during the Top Cow: We Create Excitement panel to unveil the project.  The movie will tell the origin of current Darkness-vessel Jackie Estacado. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s definitely an origin story,&amp;quot; Silvestri told Comic Book Resources. &amp;quot;We have to introduce people to who Jackie is. &amp;quot;The thing is, we have a really cool origin for him and a really well-realized character that people can relate to, even though he&amp;#039;s surrounded by this fantastic s**t. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not going to be cheap, and we&amp;#039;re going to get A-list people on there. [It&amp;#039;s something] that talent can really attach themselves to and put their mark on. The audience is ready for it. &amp;quot;The audience has seen The Dark Knight. So now it&amp;#039;s like, how do we turn that up to 11 with The Darkness?&amp;quot; Silvestri did not give further details of the plot, saying that the film was in the &amp;quot;no comment stage&amp;quot;. The forthcoming video game sequel The Darkness 2 was recently delayed and will now be released in February 2012 rather than in October, as originally scheduled. Phil Hester, the current writer of the comics, will depart with February&amp;#039;s The Darkness #100, the panel also revealed. His replacement is yet to be announced. The title&amp;#039;s new artist will be Artifacts&amp;#039; Jeremy Haun. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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