According to Deadline, MGM has optioned the film rights to adapt the Top Cow superhero comic book Rising Stars.
Straczynski is set to write the script, with Alex Gartner and Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment producing.
The story revolves around 113 children who were in-utero when a mysterious meteor hit Illinois, which ultimately granted them unusual powers.
When a few of them begin to get murdered, their powers transfer to still-living “specials” who are reluctant to get involved in superheroics.
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