{"id":8701,"date":"2010-06-17T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:17:50","slug":"ron-howard-enlists-in-potential-fairy-tale-comic-book-adaptation-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/17\/ron-howard-enlists-in-potential-fairy-tale-comic-book-adaptation-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Enlists In Fairy Tale Comic Book Adaption War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision <\/a>blog is reporting that Ron Howard’s and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment have partnered with Radical Pictures to bring the latter’s comic book arm’s fairy tale inspired\u00a0Legends: The Enchanted<\/strong> \u00a0to the big screen.<\/p>\n

Legends <\/strong>tells the tale of Red Hood, a noted wolf hunter, whose discovery of Pinocchio’s remains leads\u00a0her on an investigation of folklore serial killer.<\/p>\n

If, or when, this film ever comes to fruition, it might be sharing the\u00a0cineplexes with another murder mystery involving fairy tales adapted from comics. And if that other film arrives after this one, then they could be accused of\u00a0ripping off this concept. However, it is the other way around.<\/p>\n

That other concept is Fables<\/strong>, a Vertigo comic book that Bleeding Cool <\/a>and Pajiba <\/a>\u00a0reports is being adapted into film. The first arc of the series dealt with the mystery\u00a0surrounding the apparent death of a\u00a0not-quite-as-well-known fairy tale character Rose\u00a0Red. A TV series was said to be in development for the property, but of late rumors have concerned a film possibly helmed by Harry Potter’s <\/strong>David Yates.<\/p>\n

While Legends<\/strong> might beat Fables<\/strong> to the silver screen,\u00a0the latter has the advantage in comics . The Fables<\/strong> comic started in 2002 and is quickly approaching 100 issues. Legends\u00a0<\/strong>has had only a special preview issue published in February of this year with the true start of the series set to begin this month.<\/p>\n

Radical Comics has garnered a fair bit of criticism for the similarities between its series and Fables. <\/strong>But\u00a0<\/strong>the company has never been a bastion of originality to begin with. Its comics–film proposals in comic book form, really–have included such public domain concepts as Hercules, Wyatt Earp, Aladdin, and the Arthurian\u00a0legend.<\/p>\n

So, if Fables<\/strong> does hit theaters after Legends<\/strong>, and your friends accuse it of ripping Legends<\/strong> off, you can set them straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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