October will see the discharge of Earthdivers #1, author Stephen Graham Jones, artist Davide Gianfelice, and colorist Joana Lafuente’s new IDW ongoing sequence. The ebook follows a Native American time traveler from a dystopian future who goes again in time to kill Christopher Columbus and forestall that future from ever taking place. Ahead of the sequence launch, The Beat has realized that twentieth Century Television is growing Earthdivers as a TV sequence.
The information got here straight from author Stephen Graham Jones’s mouth, in an interview with The Beat late final week. Graham Jones described why he selected the medium of comics in which to inform Earthdivers earlier than mentioning the TV deal (emphasis added beneath):
I feel the explanation I did this as comedian ebook as an alternative of doing it as prose fiction is that it didn’t make sense for it to not be a comic book. In reality, pitching it as prose would’ve been a wholly totally different course of, which is maybe a bit extra akin to promoting it as a scripted present or film. It’s already been bought to twentyth Century Television, by the best way, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see the way it transfers over into that medium.
Earthdivers joins the recently-announced slate of 5 tasks from IDW and its Top Shelf Productions imprint which are additionally in development for television. That slate contains one other IDW Originals sequence, Scott Snyder & Hayden Sherman‘s Dark Spaces: Wildfire.
Obviously it’s early days on a television adaptation of Earthdivers, however this one feels prefer it may need legs given Graham Jones’s established fiction fanbase and popular culture’s basic love of time-travel, dystopian futures, and alternate histories. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how far this one will get and, as Graham Jones mentioned himself, how the story transfers from comics to television.
In the meantime, look for Earthdivers #1 to reach in shops and digitally on Wednesday, October fifth.
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