Korean and French Comic Books
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Alright, our more diverse and international readers are going to have to help me out on this one, because I know nothing about either of the two subjects I'm going to share with you. However, as it is my sworn duty to present you will every interesting comic book film story I can find, I'm bringing them before you despite my own ignorance. If any of you out there in the audience have some solid opinions on these two books, share away and let the rest of us know.Relatively new Korean production house Core Studio is developing a film based on the South Korean comic book Mina. All I know of Mina is the Variety description, which tells me it is a "highly stylized auctioneer about an assassin school girl," which really only says "hey, this is story from the East." Core is apparently willing to appoint a "foreign helmer," which is no surprise if they're hoping for a broader international release.
France's Wild Bunch is currently in pre-production on a film adaptation of the popular comic book Largo Winch. I've got nothing on this one, but you can dig the official Largo Winch website here. Fans, please share with the class so we know if we should be getting excited about either of these potentially awesome projects.
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5-21-2006 @ 3:59AM
Stephane said...
Largo Winch is an adventure comic strip. (In fact, both authors are from Belgium, not France :).
The stories are good, I think the main storyline from the start of the series with some sidesteps into later adventures could very well be developed into an exciting action/adventure movie, with the right cast and director.
It's quite good storywise, especially the first six volumes or so. It's about a young man who inherits a multinational multibillion dollar company from his adopted father, but at heart he stays the vagabond adventurer that he grew up to be.
Stories are always spread out over two volumes, so the wait to conclude a storyline is sometimes long :(
There has already been a Largo Winch TV-series, with mixed success (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224902/). I didn't think it did the strip justice, it was too much in the 8O'ies style of adventure series.
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