The Comic: Road To Perdition

The graphic novel, created by Mac Allan Collins for Paradox Press (owned by DC), originally saw the light of day in 1998.

It's loosely based on the Manga series Lone Wolf And Cub, in that the main character (Michael O'Sullivan, mob enforcer) is betrayed by his bosses and forced to flee with his son on a revenge quest.

Sam Mendes picked the film to follow his Oscar-scooping American Beauty. Featuring a script by David Self and a gutsy, much darker than usual performance from Tom Hanks,

While Self's first draft hewed close to the novel, the script underwent doctored revisions, which ended up shifting it away, with several of the characters tweaked and Jude Law's hunter character added anew.

Franchise Potential? The movie did decent business, but there are no current plans to make a sequel. That said, Collins did write two sequels (Road To Purgatory and Road To Paradise), which follow Collins Jr as an adult.