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The Departed screenwriter penning Sin City 2

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:40:28 PDT

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Could Sin City 2 finally happen? Is the world ready for another hyper-sexual, ultra-violent female exploitation flick from the fap rolodex that is Frank Miller's mind? Well... maybe with The Departed's writer penning it, yeah. More »

Return to the world of gamer nerd rage with book two of "King of RPGs"

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:30:00 PDT

We loved the first book of io9 columnist Jason Thompson's graphic novel series King of RPGs, and now book two is finally out! Return to the crazed world of Theo, the greatest DM in the world, and the game-addicted Shesh, as they rampage through World of Warfare. We've got the first few pages of the book to get you started. If you've ever found yourself sucked way too far into a tabletop game, or gotten into a fistfight over an MMO, this book is definitely for you. More »

How "The Hunger Games" might look as a comic

Lauren Davis — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:15:00 PDT

Now that Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy has come to a close, could we get a graphic novel adaptation? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks gives us a taste of what a comic Hunger Games might look like. More »

Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter gets a movie deal

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:00:00 PDT

We've been following artist Dan LuVisi since we uncovered his gorgeous concept art for the World War Z movie. And now his graphic novel project Last Man Standing, set 600 years in the future, is getting a movie deal! More »

New Tron Director's Lone-Alien-Hunter Film In The Works

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:20:00 PDT

Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski's novel Oblivion is getting its own movie adaptation. So hopefully if Tron is a success, we'll get to see the story about a soldier on a solo mission to wipe out an alien race. More »

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Gets Graphic

Lauren Davis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:08:17 PDT

Seth Grahame-Smith's mash-up of Jane Austin's novel of manners with a zombie plague is about to get a comics treatment. Del Rey has announced that writer Tony Lee and artist Cliff Richards will adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as a graphic novel, so we'll finally get to see precisely how one practices the Deadly Arts in petticoats. [Publishers Weekly] More »

Will The Surrogates Be The Next Blade Runner?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:00 PST

Surrogates, the Bruce Willis cyber-avatar movie coming next fall, is "cool and sort of Blade Runner-ish," says producer Elizabeth Banks, star of Zack and Miri Make A Porno. And the tale of a future where people stay home and their robot "surrogates" go out into the world could actually turn into a trilogy. More »

Cultural References You Need to Know Before Experiencing Watchmen

Alex Carnevale — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen will attempt to simulate the look and detailed feel of the graphic novel, but where did that look and feel originate? The multilayered original comic book by Alan Moore and collaborator Dave Gibbons is packed with references to everything from British scifi TV to Mayan death gods. And Snyder threw in some new references of his own when he made the film. We've put together the most important ones so you won't need footnotes when you dig into Watchmen. More »

Disney Back In The Monster Business

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Disney has bought the movie rights to Monster Attack Network, a graphic novel published by AIT/Planet Lar. The book follows a team of giant monster wranglers on the Pacific Island of Lapuatu, who are doing fine until big business shows up and ruins everything. The graphic novel was written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman (who also co-wrote The Highwaymen) with art by Nima Sorat. [The Hollywood Reporter] More »

io9 Talks to Jason McNamara About Martian Outlaws and Pop Culture Gods

Graeme McMillan — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:00:00 PDT

In the year 3535, Mars is in pretty bad shape. Its proud past as a vacation spot for the rich and famous long forgotten, stripped of its natural resources, the red planet has become a home for - as Cher would say - gypsies, tramps and thieves who think that our pop culture is their real history. That's the background to forthcoming graphic novel The Martian Confederacy, by Jason McNamara and Paige Braddock, which shows what happens when outlaws have to save the day from corporations trying to clean up the air... for a price. We spoke to writer McNamara about the book, as well as the seductive lure of writing SF. More »

David Fincher Catches Mutant STD From Charles Burns

Kevin Kelly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:54 PST

Director David Fincher is going to direct Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole, based on a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, which is a creepy quartet in itself. If you haven't picked it up by now, Burns' black-ink heavy story deals with a group of teenagers who catch a bizarre STD called The Bug, which causes extreme physical mutations. Eventually the kids become outcasts, creating their own small societies at the fringes of cities and towns. This sounds intriguing, although hopefully the end result will fare a bit better than Beowulf, which Avary and Gaiman also collaborated on the script for. We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing. [Hollywood Reporter] More »

"Public Domain" Now Public Domain

grae — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:30:21 PST

Graphic novel Channel Zero was a turn-of-the-millennium, visually-groundbreaking entry in the "corporate-dystopian America" genre, winning awards and making a name for its creator, writer/designer Brian Wood. Such was its success that a collection of sketches, mini-comics and preparatory design work for the graphic novel were released, called Public Domain. Now that the publishing rights have reverted to Wood, he's decided to make the collection live up to its name. He's put the entire 145-page book up on his website as a free download. Want to know what the cutting-edge near-future looked like, ten years ago? It's all in here. Public Domain: Free Book Download [Brian Wood] More »

io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

Kevin Kelly — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:45:03 PST

While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film's script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these it's easy to see why. Check out the breakdown of the top three below. More »

Must Read: V For Vendetta

charliejane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:10:01 PDT

Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »

Must Read: Y: The Last Man

charliejane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:08:14 PDT

Must Read: Watchmen

charliejane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:02:45 PDT