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Mandalay has bought the rights to Liquid Comics graphic novel Ramayan 3392 AD for Mark Canton to produce. Liquid was spun off from Richard Branson’s Virgin Comics, which shuttered last month, and its toppers are continuing to set up the company’s library of graphic novels as film, TV or game properties.

Sony Online Entertainment optioned Ramayan, first published in 2006, last year to turn the game into a massively multiplayer online role playing title.

The script of the movie will be written by John Collee, based on epic Hindu poem about the adventures of legendary blue skinned warrior Prince Rama, who fights to rescue his wife from the demon king who kidnapped her.

Collee who is known for his work on movies like Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the animation Happy Feet and the upcoming thriller Creation, with Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany.

Canton will produce with Mandalay Pictures, while Liquid toppers Gotham chopra and Sharad Devrajan will be the executive producers on the film with Atmosphere Entertainment.

Ramayana is one of several projects that Liquid has set up around town. It also has Virulents with John Moore attached to direct, and the Gamekeeper at Warner Bros, with Guy Ritchie set to direct and Joel Silver to produce.

Canton is prepping Relativity Media’s War of Gods and a redo of Fame, while Mandalay is developing The Birds remake for Universal, with Martin Campbell set to direct, as well as the graphic novel Julius with director F.Gray Gray.