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[Derek Gunn]

My VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series has been picked up for graphic novel adaptation(s).  The ink is barely dry on the contract and more details to follow once the full creative team has been put together.  I'm really thrilled with this new direction as I always felt that VA really lends itself to this format (but probably most of us writer types feel this way about our books!)

 

[stonecrusher]

Dude thats great.  Congrats!

[HOO-HAA]

That's GREAT news, Derek. Who's the publisher?

[Dave Dunwoody]

Wow! Way to go Derek!

[Derek Gunn]

Thanks guys.  It's a relatively new US indie publisher who has acquired the license to produce graphic novel adaptation(s).   The creative team is being put together but I am also contracted as one of the writers and I'm really excited at working in this medium - it's something new for me.

[Zombie Zak]

Coolness!

As soon as you can let us know who the publisher is, please spill.

[Derek Gunn]

Thanks ZZ.  There will be announcement coming shortly from the publisher - the creative team is almost fully assembled.

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[Snell]

Excellent news, Derek! Hey, where in the process is the screen adaptation of VA? Is it coming along?

[Derek Gunn]

Excellent news, Derek!

Thanks DL.  It's a very exciting project and work is already underway.

Hey, where in the process is the screen adaptation of VA? Is it coming along?

The official approved wording that I've been cleared to use in recent press releases:

A work of Derek's has been optioned for film by producer/screenwriter Richard Finney. Finney and screenwriter, Franklin Guerrero Jr., recently penned a script adapted from the work. Their adaptation led to a recent partnership on the project with producer, Robert Lawrence (Die Hard: With a Vengence, Clueless, The Last Castle). Currently the project is being represented by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) who is packaging the project for the studios.


The work is still under option with an option to extend for 2010.  There is a lot of work going on by a very talented team so...fingers crossed.  

[DreamingNeonBlack]

Awesome news! You go DG.

[HOO-HAA]

Very promising, indeed. I look forward to further updates, Derek.

[Monchinski]

Congratulations Derek! Awesome stuff!

[Licorice Lain]

Amazing news, Mr. Gunn!(on both accounts)

[Derek Gunn]

New Baby Productions Enters the Horror Genre with Adaptation of Derek Gunn’s Hit Novels - Read the press release



I'm really thrilled that my series of VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE novels have been picked up for graphic novel(s) adaptation. This new adaptation will be scripted by CJ Hurtt, an eclectic writer whose work has run the gamut from mainstream to horror to slipstream to political drama. His horror prose has been published in Lighthouse Magazine and Horrorfind.com; and his comic work has been showcased in the political drama One Last Song published by Brainscan Studios. He is the current Fiction Editor of Dark Recesses Magazine.

Argentinean artist Federico Combi will be providing the art for the graphic novel. Combi fancies himself a “Fine Arts Technician;” an illustrator and artist specialized in multiple concepts and artistical esthetics: fantasy art, pin ups, stories, children’s albums, youth novels, adult novels, paleo art, comics, and storyboards. He has worked for producers on several continents.

Vampire Apocalypse: the Graphic Novel is scheduled for an early 2011 release. A mini-comic preview edition will be available at various conventions during 2010 to start the pre-release marketing. Project updates will be posted on the New Baby Productions web site. 
 
 
 

[HOO-HAA]

Derek, I'm really pleased for you, man! That's excellent news! 

And, well deserved of course.