07/09/08
NEW BOOK!
THE SPIRIT: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE
This lavishly illustrated tie-in book will be published by Titan on 25th November. Sample spreads available!
FILM NEWS
THE SPIRIT – WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY FRANK MILLER (Sin City) will open in the US on 25TH DECEMBER, ELSEWHERE IN JANUARY 09.
Based on the legendary comic strip by Will Eisner (the ‘Orson Welles of comics’), The Spirit has an amazing cast including Samuel L Jackson, Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes.
ABOUT THE FILM
Will Eisner’s classic comic character makes the leap to the screen in this spectacular new live-action movie written and directed by Frank Miller (Sin City, 300), and starring Gabriel Macht as The Spirit, Samuel L Jackson as his arch-nemesis The Octopus, and Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johanssen as alluring femmes fatales.
Denny Colt aka The Spirit was introduced to the public in 1940 - an ordinary man who dons the blue mask and suit of The Spirit to tackle crime in his hometown, using nothing but his wits and his fists.
Please contact us for sample pages of The Spirit Movie Companion and other books as material becomes available.
(FINAL APPROVED COVER)
Click on book cover to see the book announcement on our website.
WATCHING THE WATCHMEN by Dave Gibbons
Titan will publish 3 illustrated tie-ins to this movie, all for Publication in UK/US January 2009.
- Watchmen: The Official Film Companion
- The Art of the Film
- The Film Portraits
The definitive companion to the world’s bestselling graphic novel. UK Publication End October 2008.
This superlead title is in the design studio right now with pages due very soon… watch this space!
MOVIE NEWS
WATCHMEN - DIRECTED BY ZACK SNYDER will be released March 2009 around the world (except Japan: April 09)
Movie Link: http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
Blogs, webisodes, merchandising - the hype is building for what will surely be one of the biggest films of 2009. Follow all the news at http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com
To hear Dave Gibbons talking about the film, check this out: http://www.ugo.com/movies/watchmen-hq/
And finally, here’s a link to a Watchmen movie blog where you can catch a glimpse of some of the lovely design art that will no doubt make its way into the books next year…
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Voted among Time magazine’s 100 Best Novels from 1923 to the present, a perennial bestseller over the past twenty years and widely considered the greatest graphic novel of all time, WATCHMENis a gripping, labyrinthine piece of comic art, which has earned an acclaimed place in modern literary history.
Now, you can enjoy the ultimate companion to the comics masterpiece, as artist Dave Gibbons gives his own account of the genesis of WATCHMEN in this dust-jacketed hardback volume, opening his vast personal archives to reveal excised pages, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches and much more, including posters, covers and rare portfolio art. Featuring the breathtaking design of Chip Kidd and Mike Essl, WATCHING THE WATCHMEN is both a major art book in its own right, and the definitive companion to the graphic novel that changed an industry.
“I’ve had a great time, re-visiting the very beginnings of Watchmen and unearthing material I haven’t set eyes on for many years. As a fan myself, this is the kind of stuff I eat up and I’m sure the many devotees of the graphic novel will do the same!” says Gibbons.
SYNOPSIS
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?
The film based on the graphic novel is being directed by Zack Snyder (300) and produced by Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Lloyd Levin (United 93) and Deborah Snyder (300), with Herbert W. Gains serving as executive producer.
Playing the film’s core group of “masks,” the masked adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman (upcoming The Heartbreak Kid) as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre; Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode (Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl.
Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award or to be named among Time magazine’s “100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present.”
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NEW BOOKS JUST PRINTED
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THE GREATEST SCI-FI MOVIES NEVER MADE
by David Hughes (Foreword by HR Giger)
New Edition. 350pp.
ISBN 9781845767556 · July 2008
‘An essential purchase… read it and weep’ — Empire
A celebration of unrealized dreams and a compelling expose of the Hollywood machine’s inner workings.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Steven Spielberg’s Night Skies, Stanley Kubrick’s Childhood’s End, Philip Kaufman’s Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, Kevin Smith’s Six Million Dollar Man, Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, James Cameron’s Alien 5…
These are just some of the legendary unmade films covered in this groundbreaking book. This fully updated edition also reveals the fascinating details of the movies that nearly were: what would James Cameron’s version of Spider-Man, or Terry Gilliam’s Watchmen have been like? How close did Ridley Scott come to directing I Am Legend starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and why was Nicolas Cage paid $20 million for not playing Superman?
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SEAGALOGY - A STUDY OF THE ASS-KICKING FILMS OF STEVEN SEAGAL
by self styled ‘outlaw film critic’ Vern
(of Ain’t It Cool fame, www.aintitcool.com)
396pp
ISBN 9781845769277 · June 2008
ABOUT THE BOOK
Vern, the self-styled ‘outlaw film critic’, is known to millions for his hilarious reviews on the Ain’t It Cool News website, and is described by Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro as “equal parts Hell’s Angels and Pauline Kael… a national treasure!”
Now Vern unleashes his magnum opus: an in-depth study of the world’s only aikido instructor turned movie star/director/writer/blues guitarist/energy drink inventor — the ass-kicking auteur Steven Seagal. From Above the Law to his guest appearance on Channel 4’s Friday Night Project, his entire career is covered in Vern’s inimitable style.
As Vern himself puts it, Seagalogy is “a book that will shake the very foundations of film criticism, break their wrists and then throw them through a window.”
“Seagalogy is a raucous, thigh-slapping and informative read that can murder spare time as easily as Steven Seagal can break peoples’ necks. In short Vern’s Seagalogy is an unexpected gem.” –mania.com (Mania Grade: A. Maniac Grade: A+).
“With the obsession of a fan and the authoritative tone of a professor, Vern takes us through every film with attention to plot, themes, dialogue, influences and even politics… This book shouldn’t exist in this form, it shouldn’t be so wise-crackingly funny, but it does and it is.” –denofgeek.com (4 stars out of 5)
“Now I had never heard of the author before breaking this book’s arm, throwing its head through a car windshield and calling it a life. But now the duder will stay in my noggin since he has earned my respect via this affectionate, in depth and often side splitting piece of work.” –Arrow in the Head (3.5 out of 4)
“Seagalogy not only made me laugh my ass off, but sent me to Amazon to buy some of the early Seagal DVDs I didn’t already own. This book is an instant cult classic.” –Bookgasm
‘We can’t believe this actually exists, but the world is a certainly a better place for it’ –New York Magazine