Apart from superhero comics or indie titles with their pitches and easily transposable on screens, it also happens that the cinematographic spheres are interested in a more demanding part of American comics. The serious Deadline reported to us overnight that the formidable Forrest Gump team is preparing to meet to stage one of these albums, the Here (“Right here” in VF) of Richard McGuire. A particularly ambitious project.
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Richard McGuire is an artist who can simply be described as a jack of all trades. Graphic designer, musician, designer and artist/comic book author, his work as an illustrator is notoriously recognized, in particular for having been on the cover of prestigious magazines such as the New Yorker Where The world. his album Herewhich depicts the story of a bedroom, seen from the same angle, through the decades, began to be published in 1989 in the pages of the magazine Raw d’Art Spiegelman, another comic giant. It will take twenty-five years for the album to take shape, with more than 300 pages, to tell the stories of all the people who have lived in this same “Here”, with a narration that takes advantage of everything that comics can do, and a set with very little dialogue, which leaves room for stories through composition and drawing. A comic strip to store with the (demanding) curiosities of authors such as Chris Ware. Right here also received the Fauve d’Or from the FIBD d’Angoulême in 2016 (the album being published by us by Gallimard).
Deadline explains to us that the director Robert Zemeckisscreenwriter Eric Roth and the actor Tom Hanksall three having worked on Forrest Gump (and having received Oscars for it), have come together once again to bring Here on the screen. The informant cannot yet report many details on the project in question, except that it must be both very ambitious and promises to be a film that wants to give pride of place to its characters and to its heart, since the “Here”, in the comic strip, crosses the ages from the past to the near future. There is something to be quite curious about the project, which it is assumed that the production could go quite quickly in view of the people involved. Case to follow, and closely.
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