Large Rig, a street raging 18-wheeler Mack truck demon-slayer, is a comic book ebook co-written by Put up Malone and Adrian Wassel that debuted in July 2025. It steamrolled over the competitors and was successfully a runaway success; and now, it’s getting much more of a blockbuster enhance with director Michael Bay creating the story into an tailored function movie through his manufacturing firm, Platinum Dunes.
The favored comedian ebook was the music celebrity’s first enterprise into comics. Malone pitched it out to writer Vault Comics and co-founder/ editor-in-chief Adrian Wassel (who has beforehand labored on titles akin to The Gifted and Alien Bounty Hunter). He famous that in isolation (with out Malone’s fame connected to it) the story was a standout, wholly distinctive, and one which wanted to be shared with the world.
From pages and panels to the silver display
Put up Malone will get the Michael Bay remedy
Described as Mad Max Fury Street meets Evil Useless — our hero named ‘Trucker’, who was as soon as a former priest — has all of the sudden been bestowed this blessed ‘hell-obliterator’ of a car. Set in Medieval Europe within the midst of a post-apocalyptic demon-infestation, Trucker finds himself combating the underlings of the godless with this large mega truck that is armed to the tooth with fashionable machine weapons and weaponry. His motley crew, who’re additionally aiding him on his quest for security and sanctuary, are a witch named Edda — a spunky, whip-smart woman searching for revenge in opposition to Lucifer herself (sure, our notorious hellraiser is feminine — and a bodacious mistress of the damned); and Batu, a fierce warrior who acts as Edda’s guardian and protector.
With the high-octane tone of this comedian, naturally — panels and pages had been merely the start of Malone and Wassel’s journey. The genesis of the connection between all events was made by F.J. DeSanto (head of TV/movie at Vault Comics) — and the remaining, as they are saying, is historical past. “I am past excited that Michael Bay is taking Large Rig to the massive display. In spite of everything, he is aware of a factor or two about making massively profitable films with a badass truck as a major character,” provides Wassel in an unique message to ScreenRant. He is referring to Bay’s work on motion movies akin to Unhealthy Boys, Transformers, Armageddon, and 6 Underground, to call just a few.
One daring transfer transforms a post-apocalyptic comedian into an adrenaline-high of a cinematic expertise
Wassel provides that the movie is at the moment in pre-production. Nevertheless, the studio will coordinate with Vault Comics in order that they’ll present updates to doting followers who’re in excited anticipation of watching this in theaters throughout the nation. Within the interim, the ‘hell-on-wheels’ saga continues as Put up and Adrian have introduced that Large Rig 2: Damned, subject #1 (the second arc) is slated to go on sale in August 2026.