David Yates to direct FABLES Film Adaptation?
It was recently revealed that Harry Potter director David Yates was interested in bringing The Hobbit to the big screen for Peter Jackson. Now it is being reported that Yates may end up directing a live-action film adaptation of Fables, which is a fantastic comic book from Bill Willingham. As of right now this is just a rumor, but I think Yates is a great director, and he would be a good choice as a director on the film.
Apparently the project is a high priority at Warner Bros., and it should be! Right now fairy tales are making a big comeback in the form of live-action films. It was recently revealed that Fables would be adapted into a TV series for ABC, but as far as I know there has been no movement on it. Since Warner Bros. and DC Comics are one, I would say this movie will end up happening before a TV series.
Fables should make for a great movie franchise, and I hope it actually goes into production soon. The studio still has yet to bring on a writer for the movie. For those of you who don't know much about the comic book Fables, here is a little run down for you.
This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers. Years ago, fables and fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella "were a thousand separate kingdoms spread over a hundred magic worlds," until they were invaded and driven into hiding and, eventually, into modern-day Gotham. And so, on the city streets we find Beauty and the Beast in trouble with the law and Prince Charming reduced to a broke cad auctioning off his royal title, while his ex-wife, Snow White, rules over the de facto kingdom the fables created. When Snow White's sister, Rose Red, disappears from a blood-soaked apartment, the Wolf, reformed and now the kingdom's house detective, is assigned to the case. Willingham uses the Wolf's investigation to introduce readers to Fabletown's dissolute, hard-luck inhabitants, and he is at his best here, relishing one-liners and spinning funky background information of a world where fairy tale characters spend their time fretting about money and thinking up get-rich schemes. The mystery seems mostly an excuse to delineate Willingham's world, as the caper is easily resolved-in true fairy tale fashion-during a massive ballroom celebration. Willingham's dialogue is humorous, his characterizations are sharp and his plot encompasses a tremendous amount of information with no strain at all. The art, mostly by Medina and Leialoha, is well drawn and serviceable, if somewhat unremarkable, with occasional flares of decorative invention. But it's Willingham's script that carries the tale.
What do you think about the idea of David Yates directing the Fables film?
