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Forged by a God.
Foretold by a wizard.
Found by a King.
Word coming out of Comic Con is that comic book author Warren Ellis has been hired to write a film treatment for Hollywood Gang Productions for a new version of Excalibur.
Here is the word coming from Ellis’ own blog:
I was actually cleared to talk about this at San Diego, but all the press I did there was Japanese-oriented for the Marvel Anime deal… so I’m going to mention it here, to say I did, and to maybe make up for that by giving the comics news sites something to post post-sdcc.
I’m writing a film treatment for Hollywood Gang, who co-produced Frank Miller’s 300. Hollywood Gang have previously optioned my graphic novel (with Chris Sprouse) Ocean.
On my desk, the treatment is called Untitled Arthurian Project.
On their desk, the project is called Excalibur.
Foretold by a wizard.
Found by a King.
Word coming out of Comic Con is that comic book author Warren Ellis has been hired to write a film treatment for Hollywood Gang Productions for a new version of Excalibur.
Here is the word coming from Ellis’ own blog:
I was actually cleared to talk about this at San Diego, but all the press I did there was Japanese-oriented for the Marvel Anime deal… so I’m going to mention it here, to say I did, and to maybe make up for that by giving the comics news sites something to post post-sdcc.
I’m writing a film treatment for Hollywood Gang, who co-produced Frank Miller’s 300. Hollywood Gang have previously optioned my graphic novel (with Chris Sprouse) Ocean.
On my desk, the treatment is called Untitled Arthurian Project.
On their desk, the project is called Excalibur.
- 7/27/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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