Gunpowder: A Twelve‑Year Journey to the Page (and Beyond) I’ve spoken elsewhere about how Gunpowder  began life as a screenplay and slowly evolved over time. The first draft was written in 2011, a concept trailer was filmed in 2016, and the comic journey officially began in 2023. That’s a twelve‑year span. A lot can happen in twelve years. A Story That Wouldn’t Stay Buried During that time, I wasn’t sitting at a desk endlessly rewriting Gunpowder . Life moved on. I worked on

When I first wrote Gunpowder  after graduating film school in 2011, I had no roadmap for where it would eventually land. There was no pitch deck, no market strategy, and no plan to turn it into a “franchise.” There was only a story that refused to leave me alone. Back then, Gunpowder  existed purely as a screenplay. It was raw, uncompromising, and unapologetically cinematic. I was heavily influenced by films like The Road , Mad Max , and The Book of Eli . And like a lot of ki