Ride the motorway
An edition about my new audiovisual projects (a TV show and a movie) an a couple of monstrous recommendations
WELCOME TO A NEW EDITION OF MY NEWSLETTER
This edition is full of news! I have been talking about them in my different social networks, but I wanted to arrange them because I understand it can be difficult to follow my trace (nowadays I created a section of all my current projects in my website).
I have been working on so many different projects since this damn pandemic began, and some of them have been recently announced. I play different roles in them, but with a bigger implication than my previous experience in the Polar adaptation (“adaptations”, if I am lucky enough). I have talked of them in previous newsletters, but now I can give a name to a couple of them.
A TV SHOW PROJECT IN THE WORKS: MOTORWAY
Spanish indie producer-distributor Vértice 360 is joining forces with U.K.-based Born Wild to co-produce this live-action Young Adult drama series, with European sales company Eccho Rights handling international distribution rights.
Variety announcement:
https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/vertice-360-victor-santos-eccho-rights-1235285505/
The story has been created by me, wrote the storyline of the first season and executive produce the show, with Anthony Alleyne writing the pilot episode.
And about the story:
“Motorway” takes place in a near future, where young teenager Alice has spent her short life sketching and drawing the motorway and the towns at its side. There is nothing else. The motorway is now the center of day-to-day human life, following the world’s regression back to coal and oil. It is surrounded by endless wasteland during the day; at night only its floodlights appear to keep unseen, vicious monsters at bay.
When Alice’s gifted brother Eric is sold by their dysfunctional parents to unknown buyers, she escapes home to track him down with the help of aging Road Warrior Stray, who has a dark past and is looking for some meaning from life.
Motorway was selected by the prestigious Conecta Festival, where I attended with producers in the search of investors and distribution and made my first pitch. In the next newsletter I will tell you about my experience in this kind of events, really, really different to my usual comic conventions.
A MOVIE PROJECT IN THE WORKS: THE LEFT HAND OF DEVIL
Again with Born Wild, but joining forces with producer Paul Fitzsimons and his company Prelude Content, to develop the martial arts/ revenge/supernatural live-action movie project The Left Hand of Devil. This is a Japanese, Irish and UK co-production. The script is written by Japanese writer/director Mutsumi Kameyama and English writer/producer Anthony Alleyne based on my story. Kameyama will also direct and I will co-executive produce.
The Left Hand of Devil tells the story of Cassandra, a black Irish woman living in Japan, who must learn Bōjutsu so she can exact revenge on the vicious Yakuza crime-boss who cut off her arm and murdered her family.
This project has been selected for NAFF Project Market, at the 2022 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in South Korea in July, and Paul and Mutsumi will attend the event.
I have a lot to tell about these two projects, especially because I worked on them in a very unusual way for me: Both are graphic novels in the works, and I have been developing the graphic version at the same time as the audiovisual projects. So we have this solo work on the book with this teamwork on the show and the movie. Maybe it’s something people like Frank Miller or Mark Millar usually do in recent times (I’m sure Millar does) but it’s something new for me and the subject is very juicy.
UNTIL MY KNUCKLES BLEED RETURNS
I made an extra newsletter to write a little about the new UMKB one-shot recently announced and listed in the Previews solicitations, but just a quick reminder:
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN221352
But I will compensate the spam with a new glimpse to the issue:
FIGHT THE MONSTERS
With all those announcements I barely had time to write about the things I have been reading or watching. I have two comic recommendations from different origins but with a common subject: Fight and kill the monsters being a monster. These are the classic Kamen Rider books by the King of Manga Ishinomori Shotaro (published in Spain by Osso and in the USA by Seven Seas) and the Prison Pit Omnibus by Johnny Ryan, published by Fantagraphics.
Different titles, different years and different authors with a different profile, but sharing this teen/child compulsion of destruction, the feeling of being a monster but defending your world and existence fighting the other monsters. Even though Prison Pitt intentions, whose main character is a punk, destructive amoral being, are completely opposed to the Defender of Justice Kamen Rider, your inner teen projects him/herself on these creatures of destruction. And both books are terribly entertaining readings.
And that 's all! I will keep you informed about all the things I am doing. If creators try to compartimentate their current projects, the inside of my head should look like a beehive.
Take care!
Victor
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