It has been awhile since we last heard of the
feature film adaptation of Bill Willingham's Vertigo Comics series Fables. Well
it's not dead, quite on the contrary. According to an interview with producer
David Heyman, screenwriter Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) is
currently working on a draft for director Nikolaj Arcell (A Royal Affair) to
direct.
"[Arcel] did a draft, and now he’s
supervising Jane, who’s doing a draft," said Heyman. "Hoping that it’ll come in and we’ll
be able to move to the next stage. All these things always take longer than you
want. And ‘Fables’ is not easy, by any means, but I think it’ll be pretty
great."
In Fables, all storybooks characters are real, and
living amongst us. Exiled exiled from the land of fairy tales by the mysterious
Adversary, characters like Goldilocks, and the Big Bad Wolfe are now residents of
the magical New York City neighborhood of Fabletown.
"I’m drawn to stories about outsiders," Heyman explains his fondness for the property, "and
I think the Fables are outsiders. They’re people torn from the place where they
were raised, by The Adversary. They arrive in a New York City-type place, and
how we’re approaching is that they’re people who are all separate, and how they
ultimately have to form the community in order to survive. They’re all
inhabiting their own little universes within this world. But they have to form
this community, and that really appealed to me. And I just think the characters
are so vivid. And I also think the farm is, again, it’s very human. That’s
what I like. It’s a challenging film."
Source
- CBR
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