Posted by bob in Films, News on July 27th, 2008
Dean Koontz announced a screenplay adapting his 2003 novel Odd Thomas is completed, telling the fans at Comic-Con International he is pleased with the outcome. The author chose not to name the screenwriter just as he teased the fans with news that some actor has already signed on to star but refused to divulge that name, too.
He declared the adaptation as “so perfect”.
Odd Thomas is a short order cook with the ability to speak with the dead. His exploits have been chronicled in three other books and he told his fans that the entire Odd Thomas series should be wrapped in seven volumes. “I know how it ends,” said Koontz. “But I don’t know how he gets there yet.”
Posted by bob in Comics, Interviews on June 4th, 2008
Dean Koontz is literally the dean of horror fiction these days, with an armload of books that consistently hit the bestseller list. That it took this long for his works to be adapted into comics is a bit of a surprise. But, this month the Dabel Brothers released the first issue of a six-part adaptation of Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, translated into comics form by Chuck Dixon and Brett Booth. Recently, Chuck spoke to us from his Florida home.
FM: So Chuck, you’re usually known for other genres, notably super-heroes and war. Horror and Chuck Dixon are not synonymous leading me to wonder, how’d this come about?
Chuck: I had done work previously for the Dabel Brothers, adapting Robert Jordan’s New Spring. So, they asked if I’d be interested in adapting some Dean Koontz. We settled on the Frankenstein books. And I’m not really a stranger to horror. Some of my earliest comics work was for Eclipse’s various horror anthologies as well as Seven Block with Jorge Zaffino for Epic. And I recently did an eight issue run of Nightmare on Elm Street for WildStorm and a werewolf mini for Platinum called Big Badz. So, I do the scary.
FM: How familiar were you with Dean Koontz’s work before beginning this assignment
Chuck: I read a few of his earlier novels many years ago.
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Dean Koontz announced a screenplay adapting his 2003 novel Odd Thomas is completed, telling the fans at Comic-Con International he is pleased with the outcome. The author chose not to name the screenwriter just as he teased the fans with news that some actor has already signed on to star but refused to divulge that name, too.
