Warner Bros Grabs "Bone"
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Here's another comic book series to run out and buy, so you can look cool before the movie comes out. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Warner Bros, who is really becoming the comic book movie studio of late, has just purchased the rights to Bone, the long-running and enormously popular series by Jeff Smith. Bone was named one of the top ten graphic novels of all time by TIME, and is beloved by everyone from Matt Groening to Frank Miller. It's a rather epic fantasy, following a trio of cousins from Boneville who are run out of their hometown. Separated and hunted, they take refuge with a human girl, Thorn, and her grandmother in a mysterious valley. But the valley is threatened by the evil Lord of the Locusts and his minions. And yes, it has been compared (favorably) with Lord of the Rings.
There was a previous attempt to adapt the series into an animated movie by Nickelodeon in the 1990's. It fell through due to disagreements between Smith and Nickelodeon, who saw it as strictly children's fare, ripe for loading with Britney Spears songs.
Hopefully, Warner Bros. is planning a more accurate approach to the material. It's not decided yet whether the film will be live action or animation -- but given how bizarre the Bone cousins would look in live action, one hopes that simple animation will be rule the day. Given that Smith successfully ran off Nickelodeon, fans can probably be assured he'll retain a similar control over the material.
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3-13-2008 @ 6:39PM
elessar said...
While I never heard of the graphic novel until just now, I know I've seen Bone (or something resembling him) before--just can't remember where.
Sounds like it would be worth checking out (along with Watchmen). I'm almost always in the mood for epic fantasy (except for Narnia, that is).
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3-10-2008 @ 2:44PM
Quito said...
Sweet merciful crap! That is awesome! I'm a big fan and I can't wait to see it adapted as a film!
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3-10-2008 @ 4:50PM
Courtney said...
Ah, Bone! I first started reading the Volume 1, "Out from Boneville", they had running in some of the early issues of 'Disney Adventures' magazine and then over a year ago, I finally got reconnected to its source and read the whole B&W One-Volume; I must say, it's an excellent story! Some parts of it seem a little off-balanced or unfulfilled, especially the ending, but otherwise I do recommend this graphic novel series-hopefully they'll make it a good movie series!
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4-05-2008 @ 1:34AM
Takisan said...
I would so love to see a Bone movie. I don't trust Hollywood, but the author seems to have tight control of production, so it'll be fine ^-^
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