'Ms. Tree', the hard-boiled, iron-wearing widow created by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, is coming back with a vengeance. But her return won't be in comics, but rather in prose...and on TV!
Comics2Film has learned that a 'Ms. Tree' TV movie, with a pilot in the wings, is in the works at Oxygen, Max (and Terry Beatty's) option having been picked up.
Word is the movie is based on 'Deadly Beloved', the all new Ms. Tree novel, due out from Hard Case Crime later this year. The folks at Hard Case provide us with a description of the book, along with the swell cover art (painted by Terry Beatty, natch).
'DEADLY BELOVED' is the first novel ever to star MS. TREE, the ground-breaking female P.I. created back in 1980 by Max Allan Collins (author of ROAD TO PERDITION, DICK TRACY, BATMAN, and much else) and illustrator Terry Beatty. Over the course of 15 years, MS. TREE became the longest running private eye comic ever and her creators were nominated for the Eisner Award. But she's never previously appeared in a (non-graphic) novel.
The novel apparently gives the comic book mainstay a "Casino Royale"-style reboot, preserving enough of the character's history to please long-time readers and throwing in plenty of new twists to bring her story up to the present.
In the three years its been publishing, Hard Case Crime has become a haven for pulp-style paperback crime novels by an amazing roster of authors, includeing the likes of Stephen King, Mickey Spillane, Cornell Woolrich and David Goodis. Every book features a brand new cover painting in the grand pulp style, by artists comics fans will recognize, including Arthur Suydam, Glen Orbik, Mark Texeira, Greg Manchess and the legendary Robert McGinnis (the guy who painted the original Sean Connery James Bond movie posters back in the 60s).
For more info about Hard Case Crime visit HardCaseCrime.com.
And stay tuned to Comics2Film for more about the Ms. Tree movie!
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