Luc Besson Adapting ADELE BLANC Comic

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Source: Variety

Luc Besson, through his prod. company EuropaCorp, has made a deal with publisher Casterman for the big screen rights for Jacques Tardi's comic book series Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec, a Franco-Belgian comic book series first published in 1976. He plans to make this a trilogy with the first film set to hit theaters sometime in 2009.

Plot Concept: "Aventures" is set between 1911 and 1922 in a Paris traumatized by World War I.Their heroine, Adele Blanc-Sec, a fetching popular novelist pursued by dumb cops, monsters, rancorous villains and wannabe lovers, is sometimes taken as an early feminist figure in French comic books.

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Comments/Responses

sharpe95th • Jan 29, 2008, 09:44am •

Luc Besson has set "some" standards in the action film genre but he always manages to ham it up with a fascination on ingenues that border on creepy, really really bad rap music for a soundtrack and corny comedic elements.

GentlemenDeath • Jan 29, 2008, 11:17am •

This sounds good. I like all of Besson's films and personally think he should be making more....I rarely see him direct and write the same film anymore...

Anyways, it will be good to see this guy back in action.

sasquatchb • Jan 29, 2008, 02:05pm •

I had the privilege of seeing the North American premiere of Angel-A last year at Sundance. Luc Besson was in attendence. There was a lot of speculation that he was no longer going to direct movies, but he did not address it. In fact, he reitterated his passion for filmmaking several times.

By the way, if you guys like Besson, I recommend Angel-A. It's sort of like a Frank Capra movie with a Luc Besson twist.
Very cool, just released on DVD a few weeks ago.

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