“With Hollywood hitting up comic books for blockbusters, a new comics publisher is looking to India for ideas. “The world is increasingly realizing that India is a source for creativity and great ideas, not just a back office to execute them more cheaply,” said Gotham Chopra, part of the management team at Los Angeles-based Liquid Comics.
One of the first projects for the publisher will be bringing its Ramayan 3392 AD (pictured) – a colorful, 21st-century re-imagining of Indian literary epic the Ramayana – to movie theaters. Liquid has teamed up with Mandalay Pictures and 300 producer Mark Canton for the film, which has a planned release date of 2011. Liquid sprang from the ashes of Virgin Comics, a shuttered enterprise from Richard Branson and the Chopra family that was meant to hammer the dense narratives of India and Asia into graphic novels for the American mainstream and beyond. Chopak and other members of the Liquid management team undertook the buyout of Virgin Comics to continue the quest at the new company.
Chopra talked with Wired.com about Liquid’s birth, a new wave of Indian comics artists and the challenge of bringing an ancient Sanskrit epic to the silver screen.”
(via Wired)
October 16, 2008 at 12:25 pm
But what is to become of Grant Morrison’s MBX webisodes? Do Liquid have the license for them too?
October 16, 2008 at 12:40 pm
DEAR GANESHA that looks amazing. Thank you for the heads-up on this…wowza.
October 16, 2008 at 4:49 pm
According to a press release:
“Under the new Liquid Comics name, the management team plans to proceed with a number of the projects previously announced as Virgin Comics and will make announcements shortly regarding those projects and the restructured launch dates.”
http://www.liquidcomics.com/press.html
(Nothing said about Morrison’s webisodes but I haven’t checked his site in a while.)
I enjoyed the the comic and am looking forward to the movie.
October 16, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Cheers T.V.!
January 28, 2010 at 11:24 am
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