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‘Wilson’ Lands At Fox Searchlight With Alexander Payne

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 12:35pm PSTTags: Alexander Payne, Comic-to-Movie, Fox Searchlight, Graphic Novels, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has made a deal for Wilson, a Dan Clowes-created graphic novel that the author will adapt as a potential directing vehicle for Alexander Payne. Payne’s Ad Hominem will produce with Josh Donen, on behalf of Sam Raimi’s Stars Road. Wilson tells the story of an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and maybe nobody else and who begins a quest to find human connection with his ex-wife. You know that can’t end well.

Clowes adapted his graphic novel into the Terry Zwigoff-directed Ghost World, and his comic creations include  the anthology Eightball. Clowes turned one of those stories into the 2006 film Art School Confidential, which Zwigoff also directed. Mr. Wonderful, the next graphic novel by Clowes, will be published by Pantheon next April. He’s repped by UTA, Payne by CAA.

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Antoine Fuqua, Gerard Butler In ‘Afterburn’ Glow

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 5:44pm PSTTags: Antoine Fuqua, Comic-to-Movie, Gerard Butler, Movie Deals, Movies, Relativity Media, Tobey Maguire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relavity Media is in talks with director Antoine Fuqua and Gerard Butler to come aboard Afterburn, an adaptation of the Red 5 Comic title by Paul Ens and Scott … Read More »

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DreamWorks Buys Radical Comic ‘Earp: Saints For Sinners’ For Sam Raimi

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 7:58pm PDTTags: Books, Comic Books, Comic-Con, Comic-to-Movie, DreamWorks, Earp: Saints for Sinners, Graphic Novels, Radical Studios, Sam Raimi
Mike Fleming

phpThumb.phpComic-Con serves as a trigger for the announcement of movie deals based on graphic novels, and DreamWorks has gotten on the board early. The studio has acquired the Radical Studios comic Earp: Saints for Sinners, with fanboy favorite Sam Raimi attached … Read More »

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