Hans found out that my favourite series of comics has been made into a film! Immortel is a film adapted from Bilal's Nikopol trilogy, which consists of La Foire aux Immortels, La Femme Piege and Froid équateur. The comics are excellent; In fact Bilal comics are just about the only comics I still read.
I haven't seen the film myself but the trailer looks promising enough. Apparently almost all the sets are totally digital. The DVD will be released towards the end of October, so I put in an order with Amazon.fr immediately.
Update: Someone should definately make a movie out of Partie de Chasse, which deals with the days before the fall of communism. With Poland (which is the location of the book) now being part of the EU and all sorts of European grants being given for cultural exchange etc. it shouldn't be that hard to get money together to do so...
In the various interviews surrounding the release of Immortel, Bilal talked a bit regarding a movie for Partie de Chasse. A director (saddly, I can't remember his name right now) wanted to make this movie. The director and Pierre Christin made a script for an exact adaptation and timed it. The result was that the movie would have been more than four (or was it five?) hours long, hence it was never made.
Posted by: Julien | September 28, 2004 at 08:52 AM