Luc Besson has directed a flim version of Jacques Tardi’s great comics heroine, Adéle Blanc-Sec, a sort of one woman BPRD of Steampunk. The fim has just been released in France but has no US distribution plans yet (Boooo!) Fantragraphics will release an Adele Blanc-Sec book later this year. More at io9.
PS: here’s the English language website for the film.
I’m really excited by this. Jacques Tardi may be my absolute favorite comic book artist, and Adèle Blanc-Sec is like the comic I’ve always wanted to draw. I hope we get to see it sometime soon here in the US.
Oh yeah, and Luc Besson is pretty good, too. ;)
Jiro Taniguchis “Distant Neighborhood” gets a movie as well. In Europe…
Seems there is only a german trailer so far with no subs.
love Adèle Blanc-Sec. And Luc Besson is great, too, finger’s crossed the movie is good! Anyone heard any reviews of it yet?
I thought the trailer looked amazing – and I thought the same thing, a BPRD-like film with a beautiful lead instead of Abe Sapien and his cohorts (whom I all love to death). Please post if this film gets shown in NYC, looks like a must see.
So looking so forward to this! Everything is right about it and Tardi’s stories are prefect for Luc Besson. Looks like they’ve compacted two stories into one film: Vol 1: Adele and The Beast, and Vol 4: The Crazed Mummies (my poor translation!). So I guess there’s potential for another 3 films (given that there are 8 books in total) if this one takes off. Good luck to it!
Or they could even be “perfect!”
I hope some Hollywood type will NOT deciede to do an Americanized version.
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