When Mexican naval researcher Bella Gonzalez is wounded in an attack by a massive shark, she dedicates herself to destroying it. But can science eradicate something as ancient and supernatural as the Black Demon? This is Scout‘s first mass market release from its Latin comic imprint CHISPA!
Based on the Mexican legend, the film stars Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, and Julio Cesar Cedillo. Adrian Grünberg, who previously directed Rambo: Last Blood, is attached to helm the project. Boise Esquerra pens the film’s screenplay with its story by Carlos Cisco. The movie premiere’s in theaters nationwide on April 28th!
The film focuses on Paul Sturges, an oilman who takes his family to Bahia Negra, which has now become a ghost town. During his time there, he learns that an offshore platform has awoken a beast from legends. Deciding to investigate further into the issue, he and his family travel to the platform, where they go face-to-face with a giant black shark, which kills anything in its path and repeatedly attacks the oil rig. Now trapped with his family alongside several other men, Paul must race against time if he wants him and his family to survive nature’s deadliest creature.
Black Demon Tales is an anthology based on the lore of real Mexican fishermen blended with Indigenous beliefs written/lettered by Héctor Rodríguez III, pencils/inks by Vincenzo Sansone, color by Saul Shavanas, cover art by José Meléndez, and edited by David Bowles.
Source: Graphic Policy
