(Paris) A Belgian producer has announced the project of adapting for the cinema, in live action, The Yellow Markalbum by Blake and Mortimer considered one of the masterpieces of comics.
Production of this film in English should begin in the fall, with distribution targeting “English actors aged 30 to 40, but not closed to Hollywood stars,” announced a spokesperson for the Belga Films Group company. the AFP.
The direction of this European production is entrusted to Cédric Nicolas-Troyan, who worked on the recent Netflix series Furies and signed a big budget film in 2016 with Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain, The Hunter and the Ice Queen.
Belgian director Jan Kounen worked on the script.
The Yellow Mark, released as an album in 1956, is one of the flagship works of Franco-Belgian comics and the clear line. Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer investigate a mysterious criminal in London who signs his crimes with an M and ridicules Scotland Yard.
This is one of the first intrigues of Blake and Mortimer, one of the biggest successes of comics, available until today in around thirty volumes, sold more than 20 million copies in 15 languages.