18th April 2008 / Dead Space / Videogames / Three Days In Europe / Movies / Anthologies
I’m away for a family get-together this weekend, so let’s have a news round-up before I go:
THREE DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD
As reported by Variety, Jennifer Garner has signed a first-look deal at Warner Bros and one of the movies on her slate is THREE DAYS IN EUROPE—starring Garner and Hugh Jackman (!). Yes, I’m quite happy about this; no, it doesn’t mean a movie will actually get made any time soon. But here’s hoping, because that’s some pretty awesome casting.
SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD
Over on the DEAD SPACE blog, Senior Producer and game story guru Chuck Beaver appears to have let the cat out of the bag on one of those left-field projects I mentioned at the start of the year:
We did a master timeline so the Comic and Animated Feature could see the events, referencing and riffing on whatever sounded cool. Antony Johnston did the writing for the Comics and the game dialogue, so the consistency was locked up there (plus we bought him coffee during WonderCon).
Yes, it’s true; Chuck bought me far too many Grande Lattes at WonderCon.
No, wait, that’s not it… Oh, yes; I also wrote the dialogue script for the game. Which was exceedingly cool.
(You may think it’s not much to shout about, but remember all those hundreds of pages of script unaccounted for in my Q1 roundup? Yeah. There’s a lot of story and dialogue in DEAD SPACE.)
DEAD CITIES
Still with DEAD SPACE, I’ll be attending Sci-Fi London 2008 alongside EA’s Glen Schofield, the game’s Executive Producer and all-round walking injury. No idea what the schedule is yet, but I know there’s a press event or two involved, and talk of a signing at Forbidden Planet. More details when I have them.
NO TORI US*
You may have seen the blitz of news stories concerning COMIC BOOK TATTOO, the Tori Amos-themed anthology to be published this summer through Image, with a veritable plethora of quality creators contributing. Sadly, despite previous news (and my name being in the PR) I won’t be a part of the book after all. I wanted to, as I’ve been a Tori fan all the way back from CRUCIFY, but circumstances beyond my control threw a spanner in the works, and it wasn’t to be. You should buy CBT anyway, of course, because it looks bloody ace.
*Sorry.
2nd January 2008 / Three Days In Europe / Translations
Apparently Bottero Edizioni will be publishing an Italian version of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE, presumably some time in 2008. All I need now is Switzerland for 20 reinforcements.*
*Wow, nerdy.
26th November 2005 / Julius / Three Days In Europe / Translations
As an adjunct to that last post, it seems this translation lark is happening a lot quicker than I expected. Not that I’m complaining - these deals have all taken the best part of a year to finalise, but now everything’s signed the publishers all appear to be moving pretty quickly. Both Spanish books (Planeta’s JULIUS and Dibbuks’ THREE DAYS IN EUROPE) are now slated to be on sale for Christmas. Now if I can just persuade Marcia to let me spend the holidays in Spain…
21st November 2005 / Julius / Three Days In Europe / Translations
Talk about your crossed wires: it would appear I’ve been getting the details of my Spanish editions wrong. So here goes, bear with me while I try to get everything right once and for all:
The Spanish edition of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE will be published by Dibbuks. Yes, that’s the publisher’s name. No, I can’t find a website to prove it. But seriously.
The Spanish edition of JULIUS will be published by Planeta DeAgostini. Planeta are not doing a version of THREE DAYS. At all. Sorry.
The French edition of THREE DAYS is still being published by 13 Étrange. No change there, play on.
16th November 2005 / Wasteland / Alex Rider / Queen & Country / Three Days In Europe / Rosemary's Backpack / Translations / Appearances
The STORMBREAKER script is finally done and in to Walker Books. It would have been finished a couple of weeks ago but for some last-minute revisions to the screenplay which had to be reflected in the GN version. I’ve already seen roughs of the art for the first 50-odd pages, and it’s going to be a great-looking book. I don’t have an exact release date yet, but when I do I’ll let you know.
The whole process has been remarkably smooth, especially considering the speed it had to be written by, and the number of people (including Anthony Horowitz himself) who needed to approve it. I’m hoping to work with Walker again in the future, though whether it would be on another GN or a prose novel, it’s too early to say.
Serendipitously - given that it’s one of the books that got me the STORMBREAKER job - work is also now underway on a new edition of ROSEMARY’S BACKPACK, to be published by Speakeasy Comics in conjunction with original publisher Cyberosia. This will be a completely revised edition, with an entirely new design, new cover, new lettering, even a new logo. It’s planned for release in Spring next year…
As is the collection of my QUEEN & COUNTRY: DECLASSIFIED series, I’m told. That’ll also have a brand new cover, drawn by series artist Christopher Mitten…
Who is of course also the artist for WASTELAND, which will launch shortly after the Q&C collection. So it seems Spring ‘06 is where it’s all happening for me.
(And WASTELAND’s going well - at this rate, I should have the first six issues completely scripted before Chris even starts pencilling. We’re also planning something interesting with a sort of “permanent guest artist” for the series. More about that closer to the time.)
Also, as a follow-up to the last entry, the French edition of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE is underway, to be published by 13 Étrange - guess when? That’s right, sometime next year…
In the rather more immediate future, I’m going to the Brighton Comic Expo this weekend. I’ll only be there for one day - Saturday - but I’m looking forward to what little time I’ll have. Apart from anything else, I haven’t been to Brighton in over five years.
6th October 2005 / Three Days In Europe / Translations
I don’t think it’s been announced yet, but the contracts have been signed and payment made, so I’m fairly sure it’s OK to talk about it: Planeta DeAgostini will be publishing a Spanish edition of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE, probably next year. We’re also in the final stages of negotiating a French edition with a different publisher.
This is the first time anything of mine has been translated, so it’s all quite exciting. Here’s hoping these editions do well enough to justify licensing a few more…
2nd September 2004 / Three Days In Europe / Anthologies
Seeing as a few people have asked me about this, and I don’t think I’ve explicitly mentioned it yet: Eric Stephenson of Image Comics recently let the cat out of the bag regarding FOUR LETTER WORLDS, to be published in January 2005, and to which I contributed a story.
My story’s called AN APPOINTMENT WITH FATE, and sees me back in the saddle, if you’ll pardon the expression, with THREE DAYS IN EUROPE artist Mike Hawthorne. Nice.
9th January 2004 / Three Days In Europe / On Sale
It seems that the collected edition of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE is finally available in comic stores, as of Jan 7th. Hooray!
11th December 2003 / Three Days In Europe
Interesting Waiting For Tommy this week from Rich Johnston (still no relation), with another mock ad campaign. I’m quite amused by the THREE DAYS IN EUROPE one, especially given that it’s not a dissimilar tagline to that of the banner ads I designed for the comic.
26th November 2003 / Three Days In Europe / Nightjar
Well, that’s the first 4-issue arc of Avatar Ongoing #1 done. We’re just working through cover designs now, and if all goes to plan it should be solicited in January. I expect it’ll be announced and publicised some time before then, but that’s up to Avatar, not me. Still - I’m very pleased with it. Some of the best writing I’ve done, by my reckoning.
Some of you may have noticed that the collected edition of THREE DAYS IN EUROPE hasn’t yet shipped. It’s not down to Diamond, or your retailer - it’s because there was an error, which was only spotted at the printing stage, and fixing it has pushed the release back by a couple of weeks. It should be out and in stores soon, and definitely in time for the holiday season. I’ve seen a bound proof copy, and it’d make a really nice gift… Hint, hint!
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