Oct 21 2008David Gordon Green Will Give Us 'Freaks'
A movie involving freaks, directed by the talented David Gordon Green, and based on a horror comic by Steve Niles? Sure, I'll have that:
Overture Films has tapped David Gordon Green to direct the horror thriller "Freaks of the Heartland," written by freshman scribes Peter Sattler and Geoff Davey. The company recently purchased the rights to the Dark Horse graphic novel written by Steve Niles.Green and Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson are producing. Niles, who also wrote "30 Days of Night," is executive producing.
Illustrated by Greg Ruth, Niles' six-part 2004 series about the horrible secret of a rural Middle American town involves Trevor Owen's attempts to protect his "monster" of a 6-year-old younger brother and Gristlewood Valley's other "freaks" from their parents' worst instincts.
Well, looking at Amazon, supposedly this isn't that great of a comic. At least there will be some mutants, though, right? Just think of all the posts you have to look forward to once someone gets a spy shot of a mutant child on-set, and I'll be flipping out over how disgusting freaks are, and proposing extermination methods for getting rid of our current, actual freaks, and so on. Good times, ahoy-hoy!
Reader Comments
1. Elmo - October 21, 2008 3:30 PM
yuk. 30 Days Of Night was crap... this Green dude must not have a lot of cash for this..
Freakishly First
2. Dee - October 21, 2008 3:43 PM
I love people who pass harsh judgment without reasons. 30 days was the best American horror movie in the last 10 years.
3. Elmo - October 21, 2008 4:22 PM
No, no it wasn't.... I thought it would be, I saw it in theaters.
4. FugOff - October 21, 2008 5:05 PM
The comic was sick. Amazing art. Hopefully it ends up being a cool flick as well. And 30 Days of Night was both an amazing comic and a bad ass movie.
5. Me - October 22, 2008 10:44 AM
Yeah, 30 Days of Night was a great graphic novel but the movie was only so-so in my opinion. The novel that Steven Niles wrote, "rumors of the undead" was really good and details what happened after Barrow better than the continuation of the graphic novels and even had a really good side story. I really like Ben Templesmith's artwork and if you do too maybe you guys should check out "Wormwood Gentleman Corspe".