Tommy Lee Edwards is perhaps best know for collaborating with Mark Millar on 1985 and with J. Michael Straczynski on Bullet Points over at Marvel before teaming up with British chat show host Jonathan Ross for their critically acclaimed limited series, Turf. Pitting gangsters, vampires and aliens all against one another, it makes for a fantastic read and should make for an even better film. Benderspink clearly agree with that last statement as they acquired the rights to the film in 2011. Here is an update on that project and further confirmation that a big screen adaptation of their new series, Golden Age, is also moving ahead.
There was talk of Turf becoming a movie (directed by Matthew Vaughn). Can you give us an update on what is happening with the adaptation?
We've got other plans for TURF right now, which are personally and professionally really exciting for me. More on that down the road. Jonathan Ross and I are actually instead developing our next comic into a film with Matthew Vaughn. The series is called GOLDEN AGE, and we are working on the third issue right now.
Will you and Jonathan play a big role in the development of the film?
Yes. Jonathan will probably write, and I will do the kinds of stuff I've done for other people's movies by providing visual inspiration.
Are you and Jonathan Ross planning on working together again for a follow-up to the first volume?
We have a sequel idea for TURF planned out. We'll see how we feel about it and our schedules next spring when we finish GOLDEN AGE.
Come back on Monday to read the full interview in which the artist discusses his work on films like
Superman Returns and
The Book of Eli, as well as his latest collaboration with writer and director Edgar Wright (
Shaun of the Dead,
Hot Fuzz,
Ant-Man) on
Brandon Generator, a unique and innovative approach to storytelling which you can check out for yourselves by clicking
HERE. Are you looking forward to seeing
Turf and
Golden Age on the big screen? Feel free to sound off with your thoughts in the usual place.