‘Waverly Place’ star to bring MMA to ‘Weapon’

There is a new martial arts-fighting comic book hero coming to theaters, or so WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE star David Henrie hopes. The Disney Channel series actor has teamed up with Platinum Studios to develop its comic book series, “The Weapon,” into a feature film with Henrie starring.

Published in 2007, “The Weapon” follows martial arts enthusiast and inventor Tommy Zhou who has developed a groundbreaking innovation, wrist bands that create an endless variety of weapons from solid holograms. But an evil order of assassins believes Tommy has stumbled upon the long-lost mystic technique of the Order of Wu-Shi, “the way of the Weapon,” and they’re sending waves of killers after him to steal it back.

Of his interest in the comic and martial arts Henrie states, “I’m a huge fan and student of MMA, and I hope to bring that to the character of Tommy.”

The comics’ creator is Platinum chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. He will team with Henrie to produce with as Randy Greenberg executive producer.

Platinum is already hip-deep in Hollywood projects having produced the sci-fi TV series JEREMIAH and having other upcoming feature films that include the supernatural thriller DEAD OF NIGHT, THE WITCHBLADE, COWBOYS AND ALIENS, ATLANTIS RISING, and UNIQUE.

It’s unclear if the 20-year-old actor has any martial arts or stunt training apart from his study of MMA. The one clip I have seen Henrie in from an episode of WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE looked like a bad SyFy Channel original series with cheesy special effects. Whether or not Henrie knows how to handle screen fighting remains to be seen but apparently he does know how to handle the ladies.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter