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Liquid Comics to make Deepak Chopra’s ‘Beyond’ into film
BANGALORE: Liquid Comics will be making ‘Beyond’, a film based on Deepak Chopra’s graphic novel story and screenplay.
Last year, Liquid Comics completed the management buyout of Virgin Comics (VC). Before the buyout, VC was led by the founding management team of Gotham Chopra, Sharad Devarajan and Suresh Seetharaman.
Filmmaker Suri Krishnamma will be directing the movie which is currently in development as a UK production. Liquid Comics Founders, Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan, will produce the film with John Garland and Michael Dufficy.
Deepak Chopra, who created the story and wrote the screenplay, announced the deal, saying, “Beyond is a story about reality being multi-dimensional and how we can take journeys to realms we never dreamed of by separating the veils that partition our minds. I hope to open audiences‘ minds to the fact that all reality is a projection of a paradigm or worldview.”
Beyond is a supernatural thriller about a businessman, Michael Morton, who arrives in India with his wife, Anna and son, Ty, on a vacation. While Michael is distracted on a phone call with an overseas colleague, Anna and Ty wander through a typically teeming Indian shopping bazaar.
Then the inexplicable happens – Ty watches as his mother wanders into a small store but never comes out. She’s vanished without a trace. Michael searches for his wife, at first irritated by her elusiveness, but soon turns frantic, as he can’t uncover any clue to her whereabouts.
Things then turn even stranger and desperate when Michael hears his wife’s whispering, crying for his help. Tracking the sounds, Michael and Ty are led on adventure of both physical and metaphysical danger as they stop at nothing to reunite their family.
Liquid Comics uses the medium of graphic novel publishing to develop properties for theatrical live-action films, animation and video games. It has created graphic novels with acclaimed filmmakers and creators including John Woo, Shekhar Kapur, Deepak Chopra, Guy Ritchie, Dave Stewart, Jonathan Mostow, Edward Burns, Nicolas Cage, and others.
It currently has a number of film and television projects in development including the Warner Bros. film adaptation of ‘Gamekeeper’ with director Guy Ritchie; ‘Virulents’ with director John Moore; ‘Voodoo Child’ with Saturn Films and Reliance; ‘The Leaves’ with Summit Entertainment and ‘The Stranded’, in development for television, with the Syfy Channel.
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Hansa Entertainment launched to produce across OTT, TV and film
New venture from R K Swamy Hansa Group eyes multi-language stories for digital-first audiences.
MUMBAI: Hansa Entertainment has just stepped into the spotlight because when a legacy media house decides to script its next act, even the credits get excited. Hansa Entertainment Private Limited has been incorporated to develop and produce original programming across digital, television, OTT platforms and theatrical features. The company will create short-running series, long-running series and original films for OTT, alongside standout theatrical ventures. It will also launch a podcast platform called Hansa Spotlight and produce content for the fast-growing vertical drama format. Stories are initially planned in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and Kannada.
The venture is founded by Sruti Swamy and Siddharth Swamy, drawing on the rich legacy of Hansa Vision and the broader R K Swamy Hansa Group. Sruti brings creative expertise with a master’s in architecture, interiors and design from Milan and a postgraduate degree in business management from the Indian School of Business. Siddharth contributes a data-driven perspective, having studied data science at Imperial College London.
Sujatha Narayanan has been appointed CEO of Hansa Entertainment. With over two decades of experience in creative content curation and production across film and OTT, she is also a well-known film columnist and media entrepreneur.
R K Swamy Hansa Group executive chairman Srinivasan Swamy said, “The launch of Hansa Entertainment marks an exciting new chapter. The new entity is the brainchild of the next generation and will be independently managed by Sruti Swamy, who is the Director and the newly appointed CEO.”
Hansa Entertainment director Sruti Swamy added, “I am very optimistic about the future of Hansa Entertainment, given the content explosion and the opportunities offered by new technologies for production.”
Hansa Entertainment director Siddharth Swamy noted, “The idea is to grow a contemporary production house that creates compelling stories for today’s multi-platform audiences while drawing inspiration from the rich storytelling traditions that audiences have appreciated over the years.”
Hansa Entertainment CEO Sujatha Narayanan said, “Hansa Entertainment will evolve as a story-first, IP-driven entity. We have already put together a smart team of interesting and dynamic creators who will helm our vertical dramas, shows and films.”
In the ever-evolving world of Indian entertainment, where stories now travel faster than the scripts that birth them, Hansa Entertainment is stepping onto the stage with fresh ink and big ambitions proving that even the best legacies know when it’s time for a compelling sequel.
