BenderSpink Adapting Prohibition Era Sci-Fi Turf War Comics 'Turf'
December 5, 2011
Source: Dealine
by Alex Billington
It is high time for comic book adaptations they're getting picked up all over, even after Cowboys & Aliens. Deadline reports that production company BenderSpink (A History of Violence, Red Eye, The Hole, Leap Year, Arthur) has picked up options to adapt the Image Comics series Turf, written by Jonathan Ross, illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards. Instead of mixing just two genres, this time they mix three - 1920s prohibition era gangsters (which is when this is set), vampires (not the Joss Whedon kind), and aliens, all fighting for turf (oh my!). I haven't read the comic, but it looks quite interesting, just from the covers alone.
The gangs of New York are either dead or in hiding. The cops are on their way to tackle the Dragonmirs, a family of blood drinking Strigoli (that's vampire to you and me) from Romania. But the bloodsuckers have set up a little reception party for the Cops on Brooklyn Bridge, and things don't look too good for New York's finest. Mankind's last hopes rest with former Gang Boss Eddie Falco, now telepathically linked with the Alien Squeed from Anth. Together they head to Harlem, where they must persuade The Reverend Samuel King and his men to join with them and confront the monstrous threat that the Dragonmirs are re-awakening... the first vampire, the 'man-killer'... 'the Old One!' (Via)
Source: Dealine
by Alex Billington
It is high time for comic book adaptations they're getting picked up all over, even after Cowboys & Aliens. Deadline reports that production company BenderSpink (A History of Violence, Red Eye, The Hole, Leap Year, Arthur) has picked up options to adapt the Image Comics series Turf, written by Jonathan Ross, illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards. Instead of mixing just two genres, this time they mix three - 1920s prohibition era gangsters (which is when this is set), vampires (not the Joss Whedon kind), and aliens, all fighting for turf (oh my!). I haven't read the comic, but it looks quite interesting, just from the covers alone.
The gangs of New York are either dead or in hiding. The cops are on their way to tackle the Dragonmirs, a family of blood drinking Strigoli (that's vampire to you and me) from Romania. But the bloodsuckers have set up a little reception party for the Cops on Brooklyn Bridge, and things don't look too good for New York's finest. Mankind's last hopes rest with former Gang Boss Eddie Falco, now telepathically linked with the Alien Squeed from Anth. Together they head to Harlem, where they must persuade The Reverend Samuel King and his men to join with them and confront the monstrous threat that the Dragonmirs are re-awakening... the first vampire, the 'man-killer'... 'the Old One!' (Via)