BOOM!’s biggest “Road to San Diego” announcement is Mouse Guard the Movie, based on David Petersen’s immensely popular anthropomorphic fantasy, and that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Gary Whitta is attached to the project. Additionally, it will be produced by Matt Reeves, producer of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and director of Cloverfield, along with BOOM!’s own Ross Richie and Stephen Christy.
David Petersen will appear with screenwriter Whitta this weekend for a panel called “The World of Mouse Guard, along with BOOM! Associate Edigtor Cameron Chittock and Hal Lublin of The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
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Launched in 2005, Mouse Guard is the epic series created, written, and illustrated by David Petersen about an elite group of warrior mice who are sworn to protect mousekind from their enemies and to help keep order within the mice territories. The series has sold almost a million copies combined and has been translated into 10 languages. Publications include Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, Mouse Guard: Winter 1152, Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, and three volumes of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, in which a host of writers and artists contribute Mouse Gaurd short stories. Recent releases include The Art of Mouse Guard: 2005 – 2015 and Mouse Guard: Art of Bricks, with the Mouse Guard Coloring Book coming in October,Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vols. 1-3 Box Set coming in November, and Mouse Guard: The Weasel War of 1149 expected in 2017.
