Dimension To Bring Niles "Hyde" To Big Screen

Dimension Films has purchased the film rights to Steve Niles' "Hyde," a comic book proposal that reimagines the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde horror story, in a deal worth mid-six figures. Mike Fleiss is producing. Last month, Dimension bought the rights to Niles' "Wake The Dead" - the story of four college kids who set out to reanimate objects and literally wake the dead.

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was written in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Gothic horror classic tells the tale of a wealthy doctor-scientist named Dr. Jekyll who unleashes the dark monster - known as Hyde - within himself by drinking a potion that he developed.

The studios are buying up the film rights to Steve Niles' comics left and right. His "30 Days of Night" is set up at Columbia Pictures, and his "Criminal Macabre" is set up at MGM. The comic writer got his big break with 2002's 3-issue miniseries "30 Days of Nights", though he'd been active as a writer in the industry for years prior, including substantial work on Todd McFarlane's "Spawn", a "Cube" comic adapted from the movie, and comic adaptations of Harlan Ellison and Clive Barker tales. In 1993, he worked with George Romero and Clive Barker on the comic "Night of the Living Dead: London".

Source: Hollywood Reporter