Next For Alex De La Iglesia:  THE YELLOW M

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1. Daniel Ferraz 08/05/2008 @ 7:49pm

   He’s also co-writing, co-producing and directing a 26 episode Spanish sci-fi sitcom called PLUTON VERBENERO.

   It’s slated for a September premiere.

   Here’s his announcement and the production blog.

   If it’s anything like a serialized Acción Mutante, this is going to be great!

2. Blake 08/06/2008 @ 6:49am

   Variety article on this:
   http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986781.html?categoryid=1043&cs=1

3. Ard Vijn 08/06/2008 @ 7:41am

   This is an excellent story though. Think of “The Terminator” as written by Agatha Christie. Edgar P. Jacobs was actually an engineer, so all the techie stuff in his comics were incredibly detailed and always accurate. Whenever Hergé (of Tintin fame) needed a special plane or castle designed, he called upon his good friend Edgar to help him.
   
   
   Back to “The Yellow M”:
   
   Its central conceit about a black-clad invulnerable killer with glowing infra-red glasses (a first at the time?) stalking the rainy streets of sixties’ London scared me shitless at age nine.
   One of many memories I have of this comic: Mortimer shooting the advancing menace (’merely’ thought to be a very clever catburglar/kidnapper at that point in the story), only to find out bullets won’t harm it. That’s the stuff that gave me nightmares. What if someone was out to get you, and was truly and totally unstoppable? Brrrrr......
   
   
   It has already been adapted as a very popular radio serial in France and Belgium during the seventies.
   
   People have been trying to turn it into a movie for decades, but its writer/creator Edgar P. Jacobs vetoed all the proposed casting for the Mortimer role.
   He did approve of William Hurt, who was mentioned as Blake. Which, at the time (mid-eighties), would have been absolutely spot-on perfect.

4. Kurt Halfyard 08/06/2008 @ 7:52am

   I love De La Iglesia, but he does stumble occasionally, even in Spanish.  800 Balas springs to mind.  His Tele-film “The Babys Room” was a revelation though top shelf work.

5. Collin Armstrong 08/06/2008 @ 8:24am

   Can’t wait.  One of the few filmmakers whose entire catalog I can I say I enjoy.  Loved the recent OXFORD MURDERS and THE BABY’S ROOM.

6. FabioFulci 08/07/2008 @ 9:43am

   Oxford Murders “atrocious” ....really?
   It was ridiculous no doubt - especially towards the hopelessly convoluted climax - but it was still fairly entertaining and beautifully shot. Hyperbole is starting to get a bit out of hand on ye olde interwebs, words do have power and perhaps we might consider saving letter-bombs like “atrocious” for films that truly deserve them, like Ulli Lommel serial killer flicks.

7. Ichi-The-Killer 08/30/2008 @ 11:28pm

   nice I like Oxford Murders quite a bit, and now the director making a film with Branagh this will be golden.

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