Fables creator Bill Willingham dismisses accusations that ABC’s new fairy tale drama Once Upon a Time ripped off his acclaimed Vertigo comic series.
A year-old rumor has surfaced again connecting Harry Potter director David Yates to a movie based on the acclaimed Vertigo comic series. He’s also an apparent contender to helm the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand.
The writer of The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel will write and produce a television series based on the sprawling, award-winning crime saga by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.
The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman clarified that status of the television adaptation, saying that while he and DC Entertainment will likely talk to a lot of potential developers this year, no one has actually optioned the rights.
Preacher director DJ Caruso reveals he’s spoken with Chris Pine, Shia LaBeouf and Alex Pettyfer about starring in his Sony Pictures adaptation of the acclaimed comic series.
DC Entertainment’s chief creative officer insists the planned television adaptation of The Sandman is still active, with the involvement of creator Neil Gaiman.
Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, who was the frontrunner to develop the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed Vertigo comic, says a television series isn’t in the works, “at least for this season.”
With the new rumors that forward motion is finally happening on the Preacher movie circulating, I’m torn between being excited and terrified. DC Entertainment has yet to really realize the potential of the Vertigo imprint across multiple media, after all, but evidence of earlier attempts have been shown to be somewhat… uneven.
The director of Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four confirmed via Twitter that he’s closed a deal to helm Preacher, an adaptation of the acclaimed Vertigo series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
For those waiting for the rumored ABC television adaptation of Vertigo comic Fables… you may want to stop holding your breath. According to writer Bill Willingham, the show is “probably dead.”
Author Neil Gaiman says the long-in-development adaptation of Death: The High Cost of Living has stalled again, this time because of the restructuring at Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment: “… Whether or not it will come back to life, I don’t know. Death seems amazingly hard to kill.”
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic book, is in the early stages of development as a television series. The title as had a tortured relationship with Hollywood, where a planned film adaptation has languished since at least the mid-1990s.
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