Ben Kingsley to guide movie adaptation of Gaiman-McKean’s graphic novel ‘Violent Cases’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Ben Kingsley is ready to star within the display screen adaptation of “Violent Cases”, the primary graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is led by the inventive workforce behind the BAFTA-nominated film “The Girl With All the Gifts”, together with author Mike Carey, director Colm McCarthy and producer Camille Gatin.

The graphic novel’s unique writer Mike Lake had reached out to Gaiman about turning it right into a function movie.

Lake prompt author Carey, who had beforehand written “Lucifer” and lots of different books within the Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ universe.

The novel was printed in 1987 by Escape Books.

“Violent Cases” is a journey into the thoughts of Gaiman, as a well-known writer who recounts fragmented childhood reminiscences and visits an osteopath who as soon as labored for the infamous gangster Al Capone, weaving a darkish and twisting story about tales, our reminiscence, and violence.

Kingsley, recognized for “Gandhi”, “Schindler’s List” and “Hugo”, stated he’s wanting ahead to beginning work on the movie.

“I’m delighted to be working with this fantastic team on ‘Violent Cases’, which for me is about the power and importance of storytelling, about how we negotiate the shadows cast by the father figures in our lives and above all about the right of our inner child to be heard,” he stated.

“‘Violent Cases’ is a wild, hallucinatory, yet thought-provoking and emotional comic. It’s so exciting to build a film from this incredible, genre-defining work,” added McCarthy.

As an aspiring author again within the late Nineteen Eighties, Carey stated studying “Violent Cases” was a revelation and a pleasure for him.

“Its darkness and playfulness defined a new approach to storytelling. Thirty-five years on, it’s still unique, and bringing it across into a new medium feels like discovering it again for the first time. Neil Gaiman redefined serialised comics with ‘The Sandman’, but ‘Violent Cases’ was his and Dave McKean’s early masterpiece. It’s thrilling to be introducing it to a new audience, and taking its visual lyricism into a new medium,” he stated.

The movie will probably be produced by Lakesville Productions’ Edmund Kingsley, Scary Monster’s Gatin and McCarthy and Foton.

Pictures’ Carlos Enrique Cusco and Ari Taboada.

LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Ben Kingsley is ready to star within the display screen adaptation of “Violent Cases”, the primary graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is led by the inventive workforce behind the BAFTA-nominated film “The Girl With All the Gifts”, together with author Mike Carey, director Colm McCarthy and producer Camille Gatin.

The graphic novel’s unique writer Mike Lake had reached out to Gaiman about turning it right into a function movie.

Lake prompt author Carey, who had beforehand written “Lucifer” and lots of different books within the Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ universe.

The novel was printed in 1987 by Escape Books.

“Violent Cases” is a journey into the thoughts of Gaiman, as a well-known writer who recounts fragmented childhood reminiscences and visits an osteopath who as soon as labored for the infamous gangster Al Capone, weaving a darkish and twisting story about tales, our reminiscence, and violence.

Kingsley, recognized for “Gandhi”, “Schindler’s List” and “Hugo”, stated he’s wanting ahead to beginning work on the movie.

“I’m delighted to be working with this fantastic team on ‘Violent Cases’, which for me is about the power and importance of storytelling, about how we negotiate the shadows cast by the father figures in our lives and above all about the right of our inner child to be heard,” he stated.

“‘Violent Cases’ is a wild, hallucinatory, yet thought-provoking and emotional comic. It’s so exciting to build a film from this incredible, genre-defining work,” added McCarthy.

As an aspiring author again within the late Nineteen Eighties, Carey stated studying “Violent Cases” was a revelation and a pleasure for him.

“Its darkness and playfulness defined a new approach to storytelling. Thirty-five years on, it’s still unique, and bringing it across into a new medium feels like discovering it again for the first time. Neil Gaiman redefined serialised comics with ‘The Sandman’, but ‘Violent Cases’ was his and Dave McKean’s early masterpiece. It’s thrilling to be introducing it to a new audience, and taking its visual lyricism into a new medium,” he stated.

The movie will probably be produced by Lakesville Productions’ Edmund Kingsley, Scary Monster’s Gatin and McCarthy and Foton.

Pictures’ Carlos Enrique Cusco and Ari Taboada.