Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained. As voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring Virus – The 1999 sci-fi horror based on the 1992 Dark Horse Comic of the same name written by Chuck Pfarrer and drawn by Howard Cobb.
After losing their payload, the crew of a battered salvage tug-boat decide to take refuge in the eye of a typhoon and use the short time to make repairs.
Discovering a foreign science vessel adrift nearby, the crew think that their troubles are over – with the bounty from salvaging the ghost ship about to set them all up for life. Unfortunately, when they restore power to the ship, they awaken a strange extra-terrestrial that was far more dangerous than the storm they hoped to avoid.
Featuring a mixture of elements borrowed from Alien, The Thing, The Terminator, ghost ship fables, and the zombie genre at large, Chuck had originally pitched Virus as a movie script, but decided to sell it as a comic book first.
The story revolves around an alien life form that takes over a Navy research vessel and reconfigures it—using both the damaged electronics and the dead bodies of the crew to propagate itself by making cyborgs.
Dark Horse loved the series so much that they published it in TPB format twice, paving the way for the 1999 adaptation directed by visual effects artist John Bruno.
Starring William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Cliff Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, much like the comic, the film revolves around a naval vessel under the influence of an extra-terrestrial hoping to enslave humanity.
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