And Hollywood just can’t seem to get enough supernatural material these days.
Universal has purchased the film rights to CRIMINAL MACABRE. Written by Steven Niles, CM is a graphic novel series that Jon describes as:
McDonald is a hardboiled PI taking on Vampires, the undead, cults and all sorts of magic and monsters. The comics are from Dark Horse and there are a number of prose novels as well. It’s fun stuff and should
make a great movie.
There has been interest in CM in the past, but creative differences have prevented anything from happening. According to Niles, one of the concerns was the fact that Cal is a recovering junkie. I don’t get being interested in something, then wanting to change the very things that made it interesting.
Niles has been protective in the past, so it is safe to say that Uni is interested in staying true to the orginal vision.
