Bill Willingham Briefly Talks Fables TV Series

Bill Willingham Briefly Talks Fables TV Series

The creator of the popular fantasy comic talks about why the TV series announced in 2008 may never actually happen...

By bleedthefreak - Dec 09, 2010 11:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: io9

In an interview with io9, Bill Willingham creator the popular comic series Fables briefly talked about any news he had on the chances of seeing the previously announced Fables TV series originally set to air on ABC in 2008:

None whatsoever. I am the last person to know about things like that. Through rumors of rumors of mistellings of legends, I understand that the new DC regime was very much interested in getting Fables going. The TV show that was prematurely announced is probably dead — don't hold me to that, because I don't know. Hopefully, I'll know before it airs, but I'm kind of out of the loop.


So with no known(if any) start date and no news from the comic's creator we can not even be sure when or if we will see the comic series hit the silver screen. Here is a brief description for anyone unfamiliar with the series via Wikipedia:

Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham, published by DC Comic's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.
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MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/9/2010, 11:36 AM
Nice one Bleed. But shame about the news of course! I have only read the first 2 books of Fables but its a great series. A Tv show would have been epic.
supert
supert - 12/9/2010, 11:43 AM
This series is awesome and would make a very very cool and different television series but ABC was the wrong network to pick it up.

It needs to be scooped up by HBO, Showetime, AMC or even FX for it to really be given any justice.

Hope we eventually see it soon.
MatchesMalone
MatchesMalone - 12/9/2010, 12:04 PM
My buddy rolandofgilead is going to be super dissappointed with this news. I've never read Fables but I thumbed through some of roland's comics and it looks like a really cool concept that would translate pretty well to the small screen.
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 12/9/2010, 1:54 PM
Cool.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 12/9/2010, 2:07 PM
Cool?

Its not cool... I wanna see this TV series lol!

But [frick]ing knew they'd pull out! : (

Geeksiah
Geeksiah - 12/9/2010, 3:54 PM
I love the series ..but DC is so full of Crap
Spilox
Spilox - 12/10/2010, 5:42 AM
Damn, this would have been a great time to put out a Fables tv series, with smallville ending, supernatural probably stopping after season 6. We need more myth and legend or fairy tale on tv!!
RolandOfGilead
RolandOfGilead - 12/10/2010, 5:59 AM
@Matches- yes sir, I am very disappointed to hear one of my favorite comics will possibly never see the light of day as show.

But there is always hope someone else will pick it up or a studio might be interested in a full length feature film. That would be epic! :)
musashi
musashi - 12/10/2010, 10:48 AM
Fables is great! But it would start to get expensive when they show the homelands / farm etc. Maybe a movie trilogy could tell the complete story of the Adversary. Spinoff movies about Jack of Fables??
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