According to The Hollywood Reporter, The First Purge director Gerard McMurray has been tapped to write and direct the upcoming film adaptation of Black, based on Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith’s superhero graphic novel of the same name.
The film adaptation will be produced by Osajyefo and Smith along with Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov and John Graham.
First published in 2016, Black centers around a world where only Black people can possess superpowers.
The project hails from Warner Bros. Pictures and Studio 8.