MGM Domestic Television Distribution has announced that they have acquired the rights to the digital graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore and will look into possibly developing it as a TV series.
The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is set in a time where the British Empire has never ended and America is just one of thousands of virtual worlds hosted on a vast global game network. When Jonas Moore (portrayed online by British film and TV star Colin Salmon — Resident Evil, Die Another Day and the upcoming Punisher: War Zone), a character personally created by the network’s founder, becomes self-aware, he is tagged by the network as a virus and goes on the run. As he moves from one artificial game world to the next, his knowledge of the games and the real-world gamers spreads like a virus to the other game characters, freaks, creatures and monsters who live as slaves within the network — precipitating a revolution and fight for freedom against the murderously addicted real-world gamers. Worlds Apart lead singer Steve Hart wrote the score for the production and also stars in the online version.
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