Exciting news about Terry Moore's Echo!
Jul. 28th, 2009 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brendalaAn acquaintance of mine who went to Comic Con 2009 (and is a big Terry Moore fan) just let me in on some exciting news. She went to Terry Moore's panel and heard The Man himself announce that Echo (Moore's current series) is going to be made into a movie! Here's the announcement from Moore's own blog:
Its official. We have made a deal for the film rights to Echo with Watchmen/Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin. The deal was outed today by Variety. Needless to say, I'm very pleased about this. More details later but, my plan is to get Echo made as a movie, and SiP on tv (think HBO). This SDCC, my agent, Nick Harris, will start the push for SiP tv. Selling Echo will help because Echo is easy to explain, SiP isn't. You have to read all of SiP to get it, and who wants to read a 2200 page story?
Meanwhile, Robyn and I are already in San Diego, getting ready for the convention. I haven't seen the SiP Omnibus yet. Supposed to be at our booth tomorrow in time for the open. We have less than 200 left unsold before the show opens. We might sell all those here at SDCC. If you want one, now may be your last chance to order one online before they're gone. Robyn is keeping track of orders online in order to know how many she can sell here at the show. I haven't even seen this book from the printer yet and it's almost sold out. They better be good, huh!?
I'm a little surprised that Echo is getting the big screen treatment since the comic's story isn't done yet. So I'm assuming it'll get off the ground once the series is done. According to Moore's blog, the movie will be handled by the same producer that did Hellboy and Watchmen. I loved Hellboy; but I've heard...not-so-nice things about the Watchmen movie. Hopefully Moore will retain enough creative control to prevent some dumb executive from butchering Echo's story.
The blog entry also says he hopes to turn Strangers in Paradise into a TV series (preferably on HBO). I'm VERY suprised that he's so eager to work for HBO since, last time he tried working with them, they wanted to turn the series into an animated violent-porn show à la the Spawn cartoon and strip him of creative control!
Either way, this is exciting news! I really wish I could have been at that panel!
Its official. We have made a deal for the film rights to Echo with Watchmen/Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin. The deal was outed today by Variety. Needless to say, I'm very pleased about this. More details later but, my plan is to get Echo made as a movie, and SiP on tv (think HBO). This SDCC, my agent, Nick Harris, will start the push for SiP tv. Selling Echo will help because Echo is easy to explain, SiP isn't. You have to read all of SiP to get it, and who wants to read a 2200 page story?
Meanwhile, Robyn and I are already in San Diego, getting ready for the convention. I haven't seen the SiP Omnibus yet. Supposed to be at our booth tomorrow in time for the open. We have less than 200 left unsold before the show opens. We might sell all those here at SDCC. If you want one, now may be your last chance to order one online before they're gone. Robyn is keeping track of orders online in order to know how many she can sell here at the show. I haven't even seen this book from the printer yet and it's almost sold out. They better be good, huh!?
I'm a little surprised that Echo is getting the big screen treatment since the comic's story isn't done yet. So I'm assuming it'll get off the ground once the series is done. According to Moore's blog, the movie will be handled by the same producer that did Hellboy and Watchmen. I loved Hellboy; but I've heard...not-so-nice things about the Watchmen movie. Hopefully Moore will retain enough creative control to prevent some dumb executive from butchering Echo's story.
The blog entry also says he hopes to turn Strangers in Paradise into a TV series (preferably on HBO). I'm VERY suprised that he's so eager to work for HBO since, last time he tried working with them, they wanted to turn the series into an animated violent-porn show à la the Spawn cartoon and strip him of creative control!
Either way, this is exciting news! I really wish I could have been at that panel!
