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Batman and Supergirl writer Tom King's Image Comics series Love Everlasting is headed to the big screen, courtesy of the director behind Normal People

The anti-romance comic book will be scripted by the writer behind the Kingsman movies

Published on Fri Apr 04 2025

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Love, as anyone familiar with 1990s rom-com Love, Actually already knows, really is all around — especially at Sony Pictures, which has just attached the director of acclaimed miniseries Normal People and Conversation with Friends and the writer of the Kingsmen movies to an adaptation of Image Comics’ anti-romance series Love Everlasting.

Deadline is reporting that Lenny Abrahamson and Jane Goldman have been attached to a feature adaptation of the Tom King/Elsa Charretier-created comic book series, in which Joan Peterson is trapped in a series of romance stories with no seeming escape beyond falling in love… except, every time she achieves that goal, she is moved into a different reality where she has another romantic entanglement to solve. Is there a way out of this Groundhog Day For Lovers scenario, and if so, is she willing to do what it takes to get there?

The series, which released its most recent issue in June 2024, originated as a Substack-exclusive offering on behalf of the creators, before moving into print via Image Comics in August 2022.

The comic book series' move into a different medium follows writer King doing the same thing; in addition to his ongoing comic book work (such as DC's monthly Wonder Woman comic), he's one of the creators of HBO's upcoming Lanterns from DC Studios. Additionally, his series with artist Bilquis Evely, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, is being adapted into a movie for 2026 release.

Love Everlasting will be produced by Ed Guiney and Emma Watts; the latter adding some more comic book cred in the process — she’s also producing a remake of Forbidden Planet with Saga’s Brian K. Vaughan providing the screenplay.

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