Color me boggled:
After planes, trains and mobile phones [Ed. Note: they forgot spaceships! –XJ], Richard Branson is plunging into the world of film production.
The entrepreneur is launching Virgin Animation, a company that will produce animated films from comic book characters developed by another newly-created venture, Virgin Comics. He is teaming up with Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur and Gotham Chopra, a film producer and the son of new age guru Deepak Chopra.
Link to Guardian story, and here is virgincomics.com.
Reader comment: Spencer says,
Interestingly, the virgincomics.com page that you linked is marked “Copyright 2003-2004 Gotham Comics.” Gotham Comics is the company behind the launch of Spider-Man India last year. A little Googling reveals that it’s a joint venture between Deepak Chopra and film director Shekhar Kapur intended to create original Indian properties based on mythology and folk tales. Also of interest, Gotham Chopra is also the author of the well-known comic title Bulletproof Monk, which was turned into a Chow Yun-Fat film a few years back.