Newly minted Madefire Studios has acquired content rights to Dave Gibbons’ science-fiction series “Treatment” and will be going out to filmmakers and writers shortly, Variety has learned exclusively.
Gibbons is renowned within the world of graphic novels for creating “Watchmen” with Alan Moore and “Kingsman” with Marc Millar. “Watchmen” is the best-selling graphic novel of all time; a TV series of the same name launches on HBO on Oct. 20, with the novel having received the big-screen treatment in 2009. The third feature film in the Kingsman franchise, “The King’s Man,” hits theaters in February for Disney/Fox.
“Treatment” explores themes of inequality, crime reduction and corporate greed and presents a near-future hammered by three global recessions. With crime endemic and audiences craving ever more sensational entertainment, a global broadcast franchise is launched that deputizes ex-military personnel, former law enforcement, sports stars and entertainers from all over the world to hunt...
Gibbons is renowned within the world of graphic novels for creating “Watchmen” with Alan Moore and “Kingsman” with Marc Millar. “Watchmen” is the best-selling graphic novel of all time; a TV series of the same name launches on HBO on Oct. 20, with the novel having received the big-screen treatment in 2009. The third feature film in the Kingsman franchise, “The King’s Man,” hits theaters in February for Disney/Fox.
“Treatment” explores themes of inequality, crime reduction and corporate greed and presents a near-future hammered by three global recessions. With crime endemic and audiences craving ever more sensational entertainment, a global broadcast franchise is launched that deputizes ex-military personnel, former law enforcement, sports stars and entertainers from all over the world to hunt...
- 10/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a new digital comics platform on the horizon, and it looks fantastic in its simplicity. The new mobile comics platform, coming to us in early 2016, is called Stela (pronounced “Steela”). It is a both an app and a publisher, being a platform optimized for smartphones that offers exclusive original content by award-winning writers and illustrators, including Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Joe Casey, Irene Koh, Brian Wood, Ron Wimberly, Stuart Moore, and many more.
The founders of Stela come from the comics, gaming, and mobile gaming industries; and its leadership includes Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief Ryan Yount, and Senior Editor Jim Gibbons (formerly of Dark Horse Comics). Stela intends to bring new content to the app every weekday, and will be available via subscription.
What’s interesting about the design of Stela is that not only is the app optimized for smartphones via heavy use of the vertical scrolling...
The founders of Stela come from the comics, gaming, and mobile gaming industries; and its leadership includes Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief Ryan Yount, and Senior Editor Jim Gibbons (formerly of Dark Horse Comics). Stela intends to bring new content to the app every weekday, and will be available via subscription.
What’s interesting about the design of Stela is that not only is the app optimized for smartphones via heavy use of the vertical scrolling...
- 12/15/2015
- by Emily S. Whitten
- Comicmix.com
"Rebel Troopers" by Richard Lim, Concept art for Star Wars: First Assault, proposed video game.
We've got some pretty awesome concept art from the Star Wars universe to show you, thanks to io9! The art isn't just from the movies though, it's from various forms of Star Wars entertainment. The art comes from a book called Star Wars Art: Concept, and here's the description of it.
As curated by George Lucas, the artwork that helped bring the StarWars Saga to life is revealed, featuring pre-production drawings and paintings from the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy, the TV shows, and the video games, including an exclusive preview of artwork from action-adventure proposed video game 1313.
Ralph McQuarrie, Armed stormtroopers on the floating prison planet Alderaan Concept art for A New Hope
Nelvana Studio staff artist, R2-D2 and C-3P0 lay low in an urban hub. Concept art for Droids animated series
Hajime Sorayama,...
We've got some pretty awesome concept art from the Star Wars universe to show you, thanks to io9! The art isn't just from the movies though, it's from various forms of Star Wars entertainment. The art comes from a book called Star Wars Art: Concept, and here's the description of it.
As curated by George Lucas, the artwork that helped bring the StarWars Saga to life is revealed, featuring pre-production drawings and paintings from the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy, the TV shows, and the video games, including an exclusive preview of artwork from action-adventure proposed video game 1313.
Ralph McQuarrie, Armed stormtroopers on the floating prison planet Alderaan Concept art for A New Hope
Nelvana Studio staff artist, R2-D2 and C-3P0 lay low in an urban hub. Concept art for Droids animated series
Hajime Sorayama,...
- 10/5/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Dave Gibbons has launched his Madefire app. The free iPad app from the Watchmen co-creator features motion comics from talents including Mike Carey, Robbie Morrison and Liam Sharp. It debuts with the first episodes of 'motion books' Treatment: Tokyo and Treatment: Mexico City from Gibbons, Morrison and Kinman Chan, and Ben Wolstenholme and Sharp's Mono. Madefire also features previews of forthcoming offerings from the pairings of Carey and David Kendall on Houses of the Holy and Haden Blackman and Gary Erskine on The Irons, among others. "Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions (more)...
- 6/22/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
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