Luc Besson snaps up classic French graphic novel

by Matt Holmes

Luc Besson's production company EuropaCorp have snapped up the rights to the Jacques Tardi's classic French graphic novel Aventures Extraordinaires d€™Adele Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White) and have set plans for a film trilogy based on the material say Variety. The first is tentatively planned to hit theatres next year. The setting is post-WWI Paris, where the city is left in ruins is a cynical heroin and novelist of popular fiction, who turns to investigative journalism as her research and subsequent adventures reveal further details of the mystical world of crime.

The series which began publishing in 1976 has seen nine volumes to date, all with fitting pulp titles such as THE DEMON OF THE EIFFEL TOWER, THE MAD SCIENTIST and THE DROWNED MAN WITH TWO HEADS. I must say they do sound pretty cool and a series like this set in Paris could be great. This has a chance to be the awesome series that we all hoped THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN would be. Just don't cast Audrey Tautou in the lead role.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.