【】The writer hit the big time with
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Eric Heisserer is having a hell of a year. 。
The writer hit the big time with 。 Arrival 。, which he produced and penned. Heisserer won both the Writer's Guild of America and Critics' Choice Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, and may have a pretty good Oscar night too. 。
SEE ALSO:One of the most underrated heroes in comics is back. Here's a first look 。SEE ALSO:One of the most underrated heroes in comics is back. Here's a first look 。Arrival 。 started with a tale called 。Story of Your Life 。
, written by Ted Chiang, which packed an emotional punch. Heisserer loved what it had to say about the importance of communication – but also said in a phone interview that he wanted to turn it into a screenplay so he "could pay it forward and make everybody else ugly cry the way that I did." 。
Mission accomplished. 。 Mission accomplished. 。But in the midst of。Arrival 。mania, Heisserer doesn't just have his head in Hollywood. He's also writing a new comic series called 。 Secret Weapons. 。It's based on 。
Harbinger 。, a best-selling comic about a team of teenage superheroes.。 Secret Weapons 。follows。
Harbinger
。alum Livewire and her new band of heroes. Here's a taste: 。 Livewire in action in 'Secret Weapons' #1credit: Raul Allen with Patricia Martin/Valiant Entertainment 。This is not Heisserer's first comic – he also wrote a couple mini-series for 。 Dark Horse Comics。 . He also penned a screenplay for a film adaptation of 。 Harbinger,which is currently in preproduction, and a second movie script based on fellow。 Valiant 。superhero comic, Bloodshot 。. He also just sounds like a comic book writer, describing 。
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Secret Weapons has its origin story when Heisserer wrote the 。
Harbinger 。
movie script. "I had grown to admire and love Livewire as a character," he says. He wanted so badly to see more of this character that he created an all-new story for her.。What he loved about Livewire is her immovable moral compass. For example, when her teacher, Toyo Harada, turns out to be (spoiler alert) something of a supervillain, Livewire still knows what is inherently right and wrong. 。
Comic book characters often off the rails when their mentor or teacher proves to be something other that what they originally thought. But Livewire "still inherently knew what was right and wrong," Heisserer says. "She held on to that and, oh God, I love that about her. And I need more people like that in the world." 。 Nikki using her super powerCredit: RAUL ALLEN WITH PATRICIA MARTIN/VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT 。Livewire is joined by a band of other powerful youngsters. We follow Owen, Martin and Sunil, who all come from different racial backgrounds. Their cultures each influence the person they are, without defining them or making them one-dimensional. 。
And then there's Nikki, who can talk to birds. Like Livewire, like Louise in 。
And then there's Nikki, who can talk to birds. Like Livewire, like Louise in 。
Arrival 。, she's another intelligent, powerful women with agency. And that's not a coincidence. 。
"Honestly, I feel like characters like this are not lauded and raised up enough in mainstream media or in popular culture," Heisserer says. "I see such a groundswell and a rising of fans who connect with them on such a deep level, in a way that I don't see very often with male counterparts. 。