New Worlds
The Black Belt Club
Partners: Gravity Entertainment, Hand Picked Films, Dawn Barnes
Based on: Series of "Double Spin-Kick Novels" combining prose and comic book artwork from Scholastic, the first of which has over 300,000 copies in print.
Project: Starlight Runner is expanding the world of The Black Belt Club for a cross-media rollout in 2007 in partnership with Gravity Entertainment (Bully, Saved), Hand Picked Films (Catch Me If You Can, I, Robot), and author Dawn Barnes.
Products:World Design: The Mythology of the Twelve Isles
The Black Belt Club 1: The Seven Wheels of Power
The Black Belt Club 2: Night on the Mountain of Fear
The Black Belt Club 3: Beware of the Haunted Eye
Advanced Media Content - Animated Series
Action Figure Designs
Video Game Concept Document
Web Site
Alternate Reality Experience
Feature Film Screenplay
Animated Feature
Status: Story & Style Guide, feature screenplay and animation pilot teleplay being written at Starlight Runner. Cross-media rollout will be coordinated with a re-launch of the property from Scholastic in fall of 2006.
"I can't recommend Jeff Gomez and Starlight Runner Entertainment more highly. We have done two projects together. Their work is top drawer and they are receptive, collaborative and have a unique vision. We have been very happy with the results. Our only fear is that more companies will find out about them and their time will become more limited."
— Michel Shane, CEO Hand Picked Films
Team GoRizer
Based on: The urban super hero universe created by Starlight Runner Entertainment CEO Jeff Gomez. Team GoRizer's fighting robot action is balanced with poignant explorations of racism, poverty and peer group pressure.
Status: Optioned by The Walt Disney Company. Property will launch as a comic strip series in Disney Adventures magazine in the fall of 2006. Story & Style Guide has been prepared to facilitate leveraging across multiple media platforms.
Darklings
Based on: The new dark fantasy universe created by Jeff Gomez. Inspired by recent events in American history, as well as the great epic cycles of the past, Darklings is a sweeping combination of science fiction and survival horror.
Status: Starlight Runner is currently developing Darklings to be launched as a nationally sponsored "motion graphic novel" for distribution through advanced media.
