Columbia Buys 'Supermax'

Yesterday Bloody Disgusting broke a scoop that Columbia Pictures has acquired the film rights to Christopher Allen Nelson and Mitch Rouse's super-natural horror script titled "Supermax". The film is described as follows; "Supermax" takes place in a Maximum Security Prison for the Super-Natural as a skilled guard must join forces with a lethal inmate after a riot ensues in order to fight his way through various monsters and mad-men in order to survive. DeVon Franklin and Doug Belgrad will serve as executive producers for Sony and Broken Road Productions also aligned with the film have Sean Robins and Todd Garner executive producing as well.


Not to be confused with the ongoing DC script written by David Goyer and Justin Marks titled "SUPER MAX" which follows the Green Arrow as he is wrongly imprisoned and must align himself with popular DC villains like Lex Luthor and Joker in order to escape. "Supermax" sounds very much the same as "SUPER MAX" but is in fact a completely different film entirely. It is reported that Sony/Columbia paid 6 figures for the "Supermax" property and it will be interesting to see how the both films end up with their plot's being so close in description. More news on both properties as news develops...

What say you? Do these films sound to close for both to be made? Which would you rather a superhero or super-natural escape? Strikeback...