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aventures extraordinaires d'adele blanc-sec

Frozen French Femme Fights Ferocious Fearsomes

Director Luc Besson's company EuropaCorp announced today that they have acquired the rights to Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec, a French graphic novel series that's been published since 1976. Adele Blanc-Sec, a popular novelist turned journalist, investigates mysterious happenings as a sort of one-woman X-Files unit who wasn't afraid to "drink, smoke, and shoot like a man." More »

3:30 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
847 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm so glad Adele is rediscovered. I read the books years ago. Her adventures could be great adventure-games because the artwork is fantastic.Might be as good as Benoit Sokals' works turned into the games Syberia I and II.And look out more »

eden log

A Mutant, A Failed Utopian Experiment, and French People

The trailer for the French scifi film Eden Log shows you something that looks like H.R. Giger creation crossed with the Crystalline Entity from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We aren't sure what that thing is supposed to be, but we hope this dark holiday release doesn't devolve into a creature chase. Director Franck Vestiel worked as the assistant director on Marc Caro's french scifi film Dante 01, which also involves some sort of zombie/virus/mutant terrorizing spacefarers, so this might be the start of a très formidable French science fiction trend. More images after the jump. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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dante 01

Psychedelic Dante 01 Trailer -- Gorgeous But Familiar


Marc Caro, probably best known from his collaborative directing with Jean Pierre Jeunet on such films like The City Of Lost Children and Delicatessen, has a new scifi film coming out called Dante 01. It combines the visual look of THX 1138, Aliens (especially the third entry in that series), and even Danny Boyle's underrated Sunshine into a package that might give you some deja vu. More »

4:10 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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