Yet another graphic novel is potentially coming to the big screen, this time one of the most violent graphic novels ever written.
Written by Frank Miller, Hard Boiled was released in three issues back in 1990, and then compiled for a 128-page graphic novel/trade paperback in 1993.
The story is about Carl Seitz, an insurance investigator, discovers he is also a homicidal cyborg tax collector who happens to be the last hope of an enslaved robot race.
Interesting. Add it to the list I need to read!
According to MTV’s exclusive report, Miller is in talks to try to direct the big screen adaptation of the story:
We’re talking about [it], Miller declared to us at NY Comic Con. I’ve got a really unusual way I want to do it.
But that’s not all. after co-directing Sin City and single-handedly helming the upcoming adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Miller has decided that the only person he’d want directing a Hard Boiled movie is himself.
I’m in love with directing, he gushed. I’ve found a way to expand my career. Comics and directing are really two sides of the same coin. That’s what Robert Rodriguez taught me good drama is good drama.
Miller has written some of the best graphic novels around, like Daredevil, Robocop, Elektra, Wolverine, Batman: The Dark Knight and Sin City.
This can only be a truly awesome thing….
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Can we just do it live action and forget about that silly animation stuff?
I’m glad to hear that it is “that” Hard Boiled. At first I thought he was remaking a John Woo classic.