Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Top Cow-published comicbook series "Proximity Effect" and will develop a feature film based on the property reports Variety.
Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay will produce with Jason Rothenberg ("Surrogate") writing the script. The comic concerns a seemingly ordinary woman who exhibits extraordinary powers, but only when she is within a certain distance of a particular guy.
Sommers does not plan to direct it, but its one of several properties he and Ducsay have set up with their own production company. Sommers, who made a name for himself with "The Mummy" and "Van Helsing", is also writing "Flash Gordon" for Universal.
Thanks to 'Intensive'.
