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Ex Machina #40 - Ruthless (December 17, 2008)

Oscar Isaac, currently on screens as hotshot pilot Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has closed a deal to star and produce The Great Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Eisner Award-winning comic book title, Ex Machina.

Isaac will produce alongside his longtime manager and producer Jason Spire. The two worked together previously to produce MGM’s Operation Finale. Vaughan the prolific creator behind Y: The Last Man, Saga and Paper Girl, is also producing.

Legendary acquired the rights to Machina only recently, with the rights deal falling under its three-year overall film and television pact with Vaughan. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel, who wrote the recent Kristen Stewart-starring drama Seberg, are set to write the script.

The comic, which Vaughan made with artist Tony Harris, debuted in 2004, running for 50 issues under DC Comics imprint Wildstorm. It centered on Mitchell Hundred, a former superhero who becomes the mayor of New York City after 9/11. Hundred had the power to talk to mechanical devices but the comic was concerned less about superheroics than issues of government and political leadership.

Isaac will play Hundred.

In a twist of Hollywood fate, Isaac already starred in a sci-fi movie called Ex Machina, only a few years ago. He, along with Alicia Vikander, Domnhall Gleeson had career breakouts with the 2014 thriller that was written and directed by Alex Garland. That fact is what fueled Legendary to change the title of the adaptation to Great Machine, which in the comic is the name of the superhero Hundred was before becoming mayor.

Isaac is next due to star in Paul Schrader’s latest drama, The Card Counter, and will next appear opposite Timothee Chalamet in Dune, Legendary’s adaptation of the Frank Herbert classic being directed by Denis Villeneuve. The Rise of Skywalker, meanwhile, crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.

Isaac is repped by WME, Inspire Entertainment and attorney Mitch Smelkinson.

Ex Machina: the Great Machine commission (2009)

Oscar Isaac will star in and produce The Great Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris’ Ex Machina. Isaac will portray Mitchell Hundred, aka Great Machine. Vaughan and Jason Spire will also serve as producers. In 2014 Isaac starred in another film titled Ex Machina which is not related to the graphic novel.

In Ex Machina Hundred is the world’s first and only superhero. His powers allow him to communicate and command mechanical devices, however they don’t always obey him and may even lie to him. He is elected mayor of New York City after using his powers to stop United Flight 174 from crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

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