Ben Kingsley Set to Star in Film Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's VIOLENT CASES
Ben Kingsley is set to star in a feature film adaptation of Violent Cases, which is the first graphic novel created by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Violent Cases is “a journey into the mind of Neil Gaiman, as a famous author recounts fragmented childhood memories and visits to an osteopath who once worked for Al Capone, weaving a dark and twisting tale about stories, our memory, violence and the ways we can’t escape our past.”
Kingsley will take on the role of the osteopath, and this seems like this will be a great role for the actor to take on! He’s such a good actor and I’m looking forward to see how he handles this.
Kingsley said in a statement: “I’m delighted to be working with this fantastic team on Violent Cases, which for me is about the power and importance of storytelling, about how we negotiate the shadows cast by the father figures in our lives and above all about the right of our inner child to be heard.
The movie will be directed by Colm McCarthy from a script written by Mike Carey and producer Camille Gatin. All three of these creative talents previously worked together on The Girl With All the Gifts. Carey also worked on Lucifer and some other books in Gaiman’s Sandman universe.
McCarthy said: “Violent Cases is a wild, hallucinatory, yet thought-provoking and emotional comic. It’s so exciting to build a film from this incredible, genre-defining work.”
Carey added: “As an aspiring writer back in the late 80s reading ‘Violent Case’s was a revelation and a joy for me. Its darkness and playfulness defined a new approach to storytelling. Thirty-five years on, it’s still unique, and bringing it across into a new medium feels like discovering it again for the first time. Neil Gaiman redefined serialised comics with ‘The Sandman,’ but ‘Violent Cases’ was his and Dave McKean’s early masterpiece. It’s thrilling to be introducing it to a new audience, and taking its visual lyricism into a new medium.”
Source: Variety