COMICS TO MOVIES

Borys Kit and James Hibberd at Hollywood Reporter announce that The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s comic book series (“considered a seminal work in the medium”) is in the early stages of being developed into a tv series by Warner Bros., which “is in the midst of acquiring television rights from sister company DC Entertainment and in talks with several writer-producers about adapting the 1990s comic.” ...

Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God — actually a collection of four short stories about life in New York tenements — is being adapted to a live-action feature — actually, four films, each directed by a different director; all under the auspices of the Eisner estate. ...

The movie “Tamara Drewe” opened at a West End theater in London in early September, destined, eventually, to reach these shores in October. The movie adapts Tamara Drewe, the second graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. The eponymous Tamara, a journalist, returns to her home in a bucolic countryside and upsets the order of things, particularly among a colony of writers seeking their various muses in rural seclusion, by indulging rather enthusiastically in casual rather than committed sex.

The appeal of the graphic novel, however, lies in Simmonds’ exquisite drawings and her tantalizing deployment of the visual-verbal aspect of the medium: she varies the traditional sequential pictorial speech-ballooned narrative with illustrated typeset text for interior monologues. Beautifully done.

About the movie, culturemap.com’s Brandi Lalanne laments that it will not go over big in this country because the heroine’s only superpower is her sexual appetite — no armor, no cape, no leaping over tall buildings with a single bound. After watching the trailer, I disagree: the actress, Gemma Arterton, playing Tamara in short short cut-offs, will easily compensate for the lack of costumed machismo.

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I also love this one. it makes me cry