Peacemaker producer Peter Safran sees an "opportunity" to give more Suicide Squad characters their own TV solo projects, but says it's down to finding the right filmmaker with the right idea.

Speaking to IGN's Jim Vejvoda, Safran discussed the decision to give Peacemaker his own TV show following the events of The Suicide Squad. He noted that John Cena's antihero had not had a lot of character development in the movie, and that the character was director James Gunn's immediate first choice for a spin-off when he was asked about the idea.

Asked if Safran could see other character's from Gunn's movie being given their own HBO Max series, Safran said that it's a possibility, but there are a couple of factors that would need to be considered.

"I think it's an opportunity," Safran said, acknowledging the potential to spin off more characters from the main movie. "A lot of it comes down to- in fact, it all comes down to the filmmaker. It all comes down [to] the fact that it was the guy that wrote and directed the movie [who wanted] to write and direct the show, that's really compelling. So if there's a filmmaker, whether it's James [Gunn] or somebody else that has a great idea for Bloodsport or Rat Catcher or anybody else, those are conversations that can be had."

Safran explained that the idea behind a spin-off needs to be well fleshed out with a clear sense as to why a certain character is being given "life beyond" The Suicide Squad. He stressed the importance of there being a vision for what the project would look like and how it amplifies the character, as opposed to just randomly picking a name out of a hat.

"I think it's not enough [to say] 'I want to do it with this character,'" he added, expanding on the motivations for creating such a project. "It's about what's the vision for that character? What is the tone or vibe for that particular piece of IP? So, listen, I think there's some great characters that we've brought to life in The Suicide Squad, and it would be an incredibly fun opportunity to give them their own life beyond The Suicide Squad. It's about coming up with a concept or a construct that really works and takes advantage of those characters."

In the post-credits scene for The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker was shown recovering in the hospital after narrowly escaping death at the hands of Idris Elba's Bloodsport, before Amanda Waller's lackeys (Steve Agee’' John Economos and Jennifer Holland's Emilia Harcourt) visited him in the hospital with a new assignment for him to save the world.

That scene set up the eight-episode Peacemaker TV show from The Suicide Squad director James Gunn. The series will debut its first three episodes on HBO Max on January 13, which is when we will finally find out more about the vigilante's next secret mission. If you want a heads up on what to expect, read IGN's spoiler-free review of the show's premiere.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject.

If this headline feels familiar that's because it almost certainly is. Last week we reported that Call of Duty Warzone was facing issues with a skin that was accidentally causing players to turn almost completely invisible. Now, only a week later, players are once again reporting that enemies in the game are disappearing before their eyes.

As spotted by VGC, the issue of invisible skins in Call of Duty Warzone appears to have once again returned. Following reports from the community, Raven Associate Community Manager Austin O'Brien has publicly highlighted the issue on the game's community Trello board and Raven has stated that it is looking into the problem.

❗️ We are aware of the reports that certain skins are appearing invisible in #Warzone. Please standby while we investigate this issue.

Trello: https://t.co/z4CHXpJGR4

— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) January 10, 2022

While the Awoken skin for Call of Duty operator Francis may have plagued the community over the Christmas break, Raven's latest update to the game was supposedly set to fix the issue. Instead, players on social media have been reporting further glitches with other operators, as can be seen in the clip below by Reddit user andrewkbmx, where the player faces off against a Wraith operator skin that is mostly obscured.

Warzone's most recent bout of invisible skin glitches isn't the first time that the game has sported similar problems. Last year, Charlie Intel reported that the Legendary Ghillie Suit that came as part of the game's paid-for Ekolo bundle was prone to its own exploits. Similar to the current issues facing players in the game, the level of the character's visibility varied depending upon how close in proximity a player was to the enemy controlling the skin.

While Raven has consistently managed to patch out invisible skins from the game, it's fair to say that some members of the community will be asking how they keep getting into the online shooter in the first place.

With Raven's QA team and other Activision Blizzard employees now entering their fourth week of strike action, the ongoing issues with character skins couldn't have fallen at a worse time for players. That being said, given that the strikes are taking place around layoffs made to the studio's QA contractors, perhaps the ongoing problems perfectly highlight how important the role of QA testers are in the modern age.

For more on Call of Duty Warzone, make sure to check out this piece detailing how Activision recently filed a lawsuit against a popular Call of Duty cheats distributor.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject.

If this headline feels familiar that's because it almost certainly is. Last week we reported that Call of Duty Warzone was facing issues with a skin that was accidentally causing players to turn almost completely invisible. Now, only a week later, players are once again reporting that enemies in the game are disappearing before their eyes.

As spotted by VGC, the issue of invisible skins in Call of Duty Warzone appears to have once again returned. Following reports from the community, Raven Associate Community Manager Austin O'Brien has publicly highlighted the issue on the game's community Trello board and Raven has stated that it is looking into the problem.

❗️ We are aware of the reports that certain skins are appearing invisible in #Warzone. Please standby while we investigate this issue.

Trello: https://t.co/z4CHXpJGR4

— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) January 10, 2022

While the Awoken skin for Call of Duty operator Francis may have plagued the community over the Christmas break, Raven's latest update to the game was supposedly set to fix the issue. Instead, players on social media have been reporting further glitches with other operators, as can be seen in the clip below by Reddit user andrewkbmx, where the player faces off against a Wraith operator skin that is mostly obscured.

Warzone's most recent bout of invisible skin glitches isn't the first time that the game has sported similar problems. Last year, Charlie Intel reported that the Legendary Ghillie Suit that came as part of the game's paid-for Ekolo bundle was prone to its own exploits. Similar to the current issues facing players in the game, the level of the character's visibility varied depending upon how close in proximity a player was to the enemy controlling the skin.

While Raven has consistently managed to patch out invisible skins from the game, it's fair to say that some members of the community will be asking how they keep getting into the online shooter in the first place.

With Raven's QA team and other Activision Blizzard employees now entering their fourth week of strike action, the ongoing issues with character skins couldn't have fallen at a worse time for players. That being said, given that the strikes are taking place around layoffs made to the studio's QA contractors, perhaps the ongoing problems perfectly highlight how important the role of QA testers are in the modern age.

For more on Call of Duty Warzone, make sure to check out this piece detailing how Activision recently filed a lawsuit against a popular Call of Duty cheats distributor.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Despite years of experimenting with different filmmaking techniques, Steven Soderbergh doesn’t believe virtual reality (VR) is suitable for long-form narrative. This probably means Logan Lucky 2 won’t be in VR.

In an interview with IGN, we asked Soderbergh — who has previously filmed entire movies on iPhones — whether he is interested in VR for potential future projects. But the director was flat in his refusal.

“No, I don’t think VR has long-form narrative applications. I just don’t,” Soderbergh says. “There’s some huge technical obstacles that preclude the use of some critical tools for a filmmaker. That combined with having that thing on your head for two hours, that combined with the inability while you’re watching something with somebody to have them be a part of your experience.”

While Soderbergh says that the social moment of being able to react to a movie together with others is a big negative against VR, he also mentions an even bigger issue.

“The inability to show the face of the protagonist in a VR space,” Soderbergh says. “There’s no POV and reverse angle on a character who’s experiencing this is hugely limiting. That is how we engage with visual stories, is to watch the expressions of the characters so that we can read the emotions of what we’re experiencing.”

In the same vein, Soderbergh has ruled out working in games but only because the director admits he doesn’t have a lot of gaming experience. And it’s why he believes VR experiences are “in my mind really built for gaming.”

Just because Soderbergh doesn’t believe in VR movies doesn’t mean others haven’t tried. Several studios working on exactly that including Baobab Studios. And the VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond actually included a documentary titled Colette that won Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 2021 Academy Awards.

IGN has a full interview with Soderberg where we talk to him about his upcoming thriller Kimi set in COVID-19 pandemic Seattle. The director also weighed in on the state of theaters given the ongoing pandemic.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Despite years of experimenting with different filmmaking techniques, Steven Soderbergh doesn’t believe virtual reality (VR) is suitable for long-form narrative. This probably means Logan Lucky 2 won’t be in VR.

In an interview with IGN, we asked Soderbergh — who has previously filmed entire movies on iPhones — whether he is interested in VR for potential future projects. But the director was flat in his refusal.

“No, I don’t think VR has long-form narrative applications. I just don’t,” Soderbergh says. “There’s some huge technical obstacles that preclude the use of some critical tools for a filmmaker. That combined with having that thing on your head for two hours, that combined with the inability while you’re watching something with somebody to have them be a part of your experience.”

While Soderbergh says that the social moment of being able to react to a movie together with others is a big negative against VR, he also mentions an even bigger issue.

“The inability to show the face of the protagonist in a VR space,” Soderbergh says. “There’s no POV and reverse angle on a character who’s experiencing this is hugely limiting. That is how we engage with visual stories, is to watch the expressions of the characters so that we can read the emotions of what we’re experiencing.”

In the same vein, Soderbergh has ruled out working in games but only because the director admits he doesn’t have a lot of gaming experience. And it’s why he believes VR experiences are “in my mind really built for gaming.”

Just because Soderbergh doesn’t believe in VR movies doesn’t mean others haven’t tried. Several studios working on exactly that including Baobab Studios. And the VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond actually included a documentary titled Colette that won Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 2021 Academy Awards.

IGN has a full interview with Soderberg where we talk to him about his upcoming thriller Kimi set in COVID-19 pandemic Seattle. The director also weighed in on the state of theaters given the ongoing pandemic.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has shared his thoughts on the future of movie theaters and how cinema habits could continue to live on in the age of streaming – saying that while there's "still an appeal", but the industry's future lies in convincing young audiences to keep attending as they grow older.

During an interview with IGN's Jim Vejvoda, Soderbergh, who is known for his Ocean's Eleven series amongst many other Hollywood hits, considered how movie theaters and streaming services can continue to coexist. He identified programming and engagement as two key areas that need careful consideration in order to keep the cinema-going experience alive.

"I think people still want to go out," Soderbergh said, acknowledging the reasons behind taking a trip to the box office. "There's still an appeal to seeing a movie in a movie theater. It's still a great destination. And it really depends, I think, on our ability to attract, to convince the older audiences to continue to come out [...] It has nothing to do with windowing [the term for the amount of time left between theater and home releases]."

Soderbergh went on to reference the "huge" numbers that Spider-Man: No Way Home has managed to pull in at the box office, having just topped its fourth domestic weekend box office in a row with ticket sales of $33 million. He recognized the ongoing popularity of certain movie theater experiences at present but shifted his focus onto how that should be nurtured into the future.

"It has to do with programming and figuring out a way, thinking of creative ways or at least ideas to try and cultivate that audience again," he explained. "The question is can you grow a younger audience that will mature and keep movie-going as a habit? You know what I mean? If they're going to the movies now, that's great. But what can you do to make sure 10 years from now they're going to the movies as often as they do today?"

The comments made by Soderbergh join a chorus of conversations that several other filmmakers have been having on the subject. Notably, amongst the chatter, director Christopher Nolan penned an op-ed amid the COVID-19 pandemic about the importance of saving movie theaters, which called for government, studio, and societal support of movie theaters as they faced a time of "unprecedented challenge and uncertainty."

Nolan isn't the only fervent advocate of the movie theater experience, Dune director Denis Villeneuve previously spoke out against Warner Bros. decision to release its entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day. He recognized that "streaming services are a positive and powerful addition to the movie and TV ecosystems," but argued that streaming alone couldn't "sustain the film industry as we knew it before COVID."

Villeneuve further doubled down on his comments last year when he acknowledged the "tremendous pressure" the movie industry had been put under due to the coronavirus crisis but stated that he was still not happy about his next release dropping simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max because, in his personal opinion, watching Dune on a TV would be like "driving a speedboat in your bathtub."

In recent times, success has been found in releasing movies both into theaters and onto streaming services — and with the new year comes a whole host of new shows and movies for us to dive into on the big and small screen.

Soderbergh's next movie, a twisted thriller called Kimi, is scheduled to be released exclusively on HBO Max on February 10. However, if you're in need of some entertainment before then, we have a rundown of the biggest movies and shows coming to streaming platforms, as well as a fresh look at the 2022 movie slate.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has shared his thoughts on the future of movie theaters and how cinema habits could continue to live on in the age of streaming – saying that while there's "still an appeal", but the industry's future lies in convincing young audiences to keep attending as they grow older.

During an interview with IGN's Jim Vejvoda, Soderbergh, who is known for his Ocean's Eleven series amongst many other Hollywood hits, considered how movie theaters and streaming services can continue to coexist. He identified programming and engagement as two key areas that need careful consideration in order to keep the cinema-going experience alive.

"I think people still want to go out," Soderbergh said, acknowledging the reasons behind taking a trip to the box office. "There's still an appeal to seeing a movie in a movie theater. It's still a great destination. And it really depends, I think, on our ability to attract, to convince the older audiences to continue to come out [...] It has nothing to do with windowing [the term for the amount of time left between theater and home releases]."

Soderbergh went on to reference the "huge" numbers that Spider-Man: No Way Home has managed to pull in at the box office, having just topped its fourth domestic weekend box office in a row with ticket sales of $33 million. He recognized the ongoing popularity of certain movie theater experiences at present but shifted his focus onto how that should be nurtured into the future.

"It has to do with programming and figuring out a way, thinking of creative ways or at least ideas to try and cultivate that audience again," he explained. "The question is can you grow a younger audience that will mature and keep movie-going as a habit? You know what I mean? If they're going to the movies now, that's great. But what can you do to make sure 10 years from now they're going to the movies as often as they do today?"

The comments made by Soderbergh join a chorus of conversations that several other filmmakers have been having on the subject. Notably, amongst the chatter, director Christopher Nolan penned an op-ed amid the COVID-19 pandemic about the importance of saving movie theaters, which called for government, studio, and societal support of movie theaters as they faced a time of "unprecedented challenge and uncertainty."

Nolan isn't the only fervent advocate of the movie theater experience, Dune director Denis Villeneuve previously spoke out against Warner Bros. decision to release its entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day. He recognized that "streaming services are a positive and powerful addition to the movie and TV ecosystems," but argued that streaming alone couldn't "sustain the film industry as we knew it before COVID."

Villeneuve further doubled down on his comments last year when he acknowledged the "tremendous pressure" the movie industry had been put under due to the coronavirus crisis but stated that he was still not happy about his next release dropping simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max because, in his personal opinion, watching Dune on a TV would be like "driving a speedboat in your bathtub."

In recent times, success has been found in releasing movies both into theaters and onto streaming services — and with the new year comes a whole host of new shows and movies for us to dive into on the big and small screen.

Soderbergh's next movie, a twisted thriller called Kimi, is scheduled to be released exclusively on HBO Max on February 10. However, if you're in need of some entertainment before then, we have a rundown of the biggest movies and shows coming to streaming platforms, as well as a fresh look at the 2022 movie slate.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Days Gone game director Jeff Ross has said in a recent interview that a sequel to the game would have moved the series in a "more technical direction" had Sony decided to revisit the franchise for a second time.

In a recent interview with USA Today's ForTheWin, Ross spoke further about where he would have taken Days Gone 2, stating that among other aspects he'd have liked to have delved further into the relationship between the series' main protagonist Deacon and his wife Sarah - who for large parts of the first game the player spends time searching for.

“Yeah, they’re back together, but maybe they’re not happy,” Ross explains in the interview when talking about the pair. “Well, what can we do with that? Okay, we were married before the apocalypse, but what about the future?" With a strong focus on the game's characters, it's no surprise that Ross says a sequel would have also kept in theme with the original's "heavy, strong narrative."

"We would have kept the bike, obviously. And I think we would have expanded the tone a little bit in a more technical direction, kind of like, ‘Alright, now we have all this NERO tech – what can we do with it?’ The tone would have expanded one ring outward towards some of the new reality. I think this would have been a little bit more – I don’t want to say Avengers, but something where the player had resources, he had some sort of the remnants of whatever the government had."

In Days Gone, NERO (or IPCA) tech refers to technology that can be found across the game at its various NERO Research Sites. Once collected, the tech could be used to unlock a secret weapon (known as the Unknown NERO Weapon), which acted as a stun gun and was able to electrocute and (sometimes) set fire to the freaker enemies.

With that in mind, it sounds as though a potential sequel could have drawn a little more on sci-fi esque tropes than its predecessor, with players able to rely a little more on the inclusion of advanced weaponry instead of the more familiar tools that were present in the first game.

While it currently seems unlikely that fans will ever get to see a sequel to the 2019 action-adventure game, Ross explained in the interview that he'd learned a lot from working on the original and would have liked the chance to make further improvements to the franchise in a sequel.

According to the report, such improvements would have built on the world in a range of ways, adding more complex elements to characters' behaviours, further lifelike representations of its creatures and animals, and improving upon the game's mechanics with factors such as allowing Deacon to swim - a factor that Ross says wasn't possible in the first game due to an engineering constraint.

“The swimming thing in Days Gone, it’s the worst,” Ross explains. “(Writer and director) John Garvin acquiesced to a certain point and just brought it into the narrative. It gave him an opportunity to have character growth too. I think that’s why he really liked it."

"This character can swim but refuses to, and later makes the decision to do it. There’s a screenwriting principle behind all that. But from a gameplay point of view, I hated it. I’m like, ‘Alright, we’ll figure this out later.’ By the time we circled back around we were probably in the final year when the user testing was coming back, and people were complaining about the water.”

Sony has long since rejected a pitch to a sequel for Days Gone, which is a decision that some fans may find disappointing given that Ross seems to have had a wealth of new ideas to bring into the fold. While this most recent interview delves much further into his thoughts, the Game Director has previously spoken about Days Gone 2, explaining that the game's initial pitch featured plans for a shared universe and cooperative play component.

Ross also recently made headlines after comparing the success of Days Gone to Ghost of Tsushima. Following the news that Ghost of Tsushima had sold over 8 million units globally, the Game Director commented on the fact that local studio management had always made his team feel like it was a big disappointment, despite Days Gone selling a similar number of copies in the same timeframe - though it should be noted that the figures quoted by Ross were a ballpark and may not be wholly accurate.

For more on Days Gone, make sure to check out this article where Ross spoke further about the struggle to get a green light for the game's sequel and how, in part, those hopes faded after Sony head Shawn Layden left the company.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Days Gone game director Jeff Ross has said in a recent interview that a sequel to the game would have moved the series in a "more technical direction" had Sony decided to revisit the franchise for a second time.

In a recent interview with USA Today's ForTheWin, Ross spoke further about where he would have taken Days Gone 2, stating that among other aspects he'd have liked to have delved further into the relationship between the series' main protagonist Deacon and his wife Sarah - who for large parts of the first game the player spends time searching for.

“Yeah, they’re back together, but maybe they’re not happy,” Ross explains in the interview when talking about the pair. “Well, what can we do with that? Okay, we were married before the apocalypse, but what about the future?" With a strong focus on the game's characters, it's no surprise that Ross says a sequel would have also kept in theme with the original's "heavy, strong narrative."

"We would have kept the bike, obviously. And I think we would have expanded the tone a little bit in a more technical direction, kind of like, ‘Alright, now we have all this NERO tech – what can we do with it?’ The tone would have expanded one ring outward towards some of the new reality. I think this would have been a little bit more – I don’t want to say Avengers, but something where the player had resources, he had some sort of the remnants of whatever the government had."

In Days Gone, NERO (or IPCA) tech refers to technology that can be found across the game at its various NERO Research Sites. Once collected, the tech could be used to unlock a secret weapon (known as the Unknown NERO Weapon), which acted as a stun gun and was able to electrocute and (sometimes) set fire to the freaker enemies.

With that in mind, it sounds as though a potential sequel could have drawn a little more on sci-fi esque tropes than its predecessor, with players able to rely a little more on the inclusion of advanced weaponry instead of the more familiar tools that were present in the first game.

While it currently seems unlikely that fans will ever get to see a sequel to the 2019 action-adventure game, Ross explained in the interview that he'd learned a lot from working on the original and would have liked the chance to make further improvements to the franchise in a sequel.

According to the report, such improvements would have built on the world in a range of ways, adding more complex elements to characters' behaviours, further lifelike representations of its creatures and animals, and improving upon the game's mechanics with factors such as allowing Deacon to swim - a factor that Ross says wasn't possible in the first game due to an engineering constraint.

“The swimming thing in Days Gone, it’s the worst,” Ross explains. “(Writer and director) John Garvin acquiesced to a certain point and just brought it into the narrative. It gave him an opportunity to have character growth too. I think that’s why he really liked it."

"This character can swim but refuses to, and later makes the decision to do it. There’s a screenwriting principle behind all that. But from a gameplay point of view, I hated it. I’m like, ‘Alright, we’ll figure this out later.’ By the time we circled back around we were probably in the final year when the user testing was coming back, and people were complaining about the water.”

Sony has long since rejected a pitch to a sequel for Days Gone, which is a decision that some fans may find disappointing given that Ross seems to have had a wealth of new ideas to bring into the fold. While this most recent interview delves much further into his thoughts, the Game Director has previously spoken about Days Gone 2, explaining that the game's initial pitch featured plans for a shared universe and cooperative play component.

Ross also recently made headlines after comparing the success of Days Gone to Ghost of Tsushima. Following the news that Ghost of Tsushima had sold over 8 million units globally, the Game Director commented on the fact that local studio management had always made his team feel like it was a big disappointment, despite Days Gone selling a similar number of copies in the same timeframe - though it should be noted that the figures quoted by Ross were a ballpark and may not be wholly accurate.

For more on Days Gone, make sure to check out this article where Ross spoke further about the struggle to get a green light for the game's sequel and how, in part, those hopes faded after Sony head Shawn Layden left the company.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Invincible creator Robert Kirkman is being sued by a comic book artist who says he was tricked into relinquishing his copyright.

William Crabtree claims he co-created Invincible (he was the comic book’s colorist for its first 50 issues) but was convinced by Kirkman to surrender his ownership of the title back in 2005 in order to make it easier to sell the rights to studios.

“Fraud and deceit has become a standard business practice for Kirkman and is apparently where his true creative aptitude lies,” claims attorney Devin McRae in the complaint (via The Hollywood Reporter).

Crabtree claims that he had an oral agreement with Kirkman that granted him 20 percent of single sale proceeds for Invincible, as well as 10 percent of any revenue from “other film or television commercial exploitation of the Work together with any derivative projects based on the Work and any allied or ancillary rights in the Work.”

Essentially, this means that Crabtree would have missed out on a large paycheck when Invincible was turned into an animated series.

As for why this agreement was never written down, Crabtree alleges that Kirkman convinced him to sign over his rights with a “Certificate of Authorship” while at San Diego Comic Con in 2005.

He claims that Kirkman persuaded him by stating that Invincible would be more saleable to studios if it came from a single creator.

“Kirkman falsely told Crabtree that Crabtree’s rights and financial interest in the Work would remain unchanged if he signed the Certificate of Authorship and that the document would simply allow Kirkman to market the licensure of the Work more easily, resulting in greater profits for both of them,” reads the lawsuit.

Once the document was signed, the lawsuit claims that Kirkman continued to pay Crabtree for comic sales, as well as licensing by MTV for an animated series and Paramount Pictures for a film and TV option.

But when Invincible was picked up by Amazon Studios, Crabtree claims that Kirkman refused his claims for compensation.

“When Crabtree questioned Kirkman about why Kirkman continued to pay Crabtree royalties on the Work for years after the Certificate of Authorship, Kirkman stated that those royalty payments were actually just ‘bonuses,’ that he paid at his discretion,” reads the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges fraud and breach of contract by Kirkman, as well as denying Crabtree access to profit statements in connection to the Amazon TV series. The suit ultimately seeks a judgment that Crabtree is co-creator of Invincible, as well as an account of what he’s owed and punitive damages.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Kirkman has seen legal troubles around his work.

The Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore also sued Kirkman, claiming he “swindled” him out of profits and residuals for the comic book adaptation. Moore’s lawsuit ended with a settlement between the two parties. Additionally, Kirkman himself (and other creators) sued AMC in 2017 for breach of contract surrounding the post-apocalyptic TV series.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.