{"id":28551,"date":"2013-06-04T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=28551"},"modified":"2013-06-04T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:35:09","slug":"royal-affair-director-nikolaj-arcel-to-bring-fables-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/04\/royal-affair-director-nikolaj-arcel-to-bring-fables-to-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL AFFAIR Director Nikolaj Arcel To Bring FABLES To Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fables.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28552\" alt=\"Fables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fables-207x300.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>DC\/Vertigo&#8217;s critically acclaimed fantasy series <em>Fables<\/em> is taking another run at the big screen. Danish director Nikolaj Arcel (<strong>A Royal Affair<\/strong>) has just been hired to translate the comic book series onto the big screen. Jeremy Slater has been picked to write the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>The series of graphic novels centers on a group of fairy tale characters &#8211; Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, King Cole, Boy Blue, etc. &#8211; who are refugees from their own magical realms now living in hiding in Manhattan. Early volumes of the series focused on the fables&#8217; preparations<br \/>\nfor an inevitable conflict with the enemy that drove them from their homes and the mystery surrounding that enemy&#8217;s identity. It is easy to see why the two producers behind the <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> franchise, David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films, are the ones putting this project together.<\/p>\n<p>A previous attempt was made to bring <em>Fables<\/em> to the big screen back in 2004 with the Jim Henson Company, but it never even got as far as having a screenplay written. In 2008, ABC looked to develop the comic into a television series. When the network discovered that the characters were public domain, they went on to create their own fairy tales-in-the-modern-world series <em>Once Upon A Time<\/em> in-house.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t be Slater&#8217;s first comic book assignment, having already worked on Twentieth Century Fox&#8217;s <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Via Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/dc-comic-fables-targeted-film-562016\" target=\"_blank\">Heat Vision Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The producers of the HARRY POTTER franchise are bringing the popular graphic novel series to the screen.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/04\/royal-affair-director-nikolaj-arcel-to-bring-fables-to-big-screen\/\" title=\"ROYAL AFFAIR Director Nikolaj Arcel To Bring FABLES To Big Screen\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2860,5391,6472],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"tag-fables","9":"tag-jeremy-slater","10":"tag-nikolaj-arcel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28551"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}