Hey guys, this is Christianne the newest intern at Periscope updating you on graphic novel-turned movie, Whiteout, set to release on September 11th. The art from the original book was done by Periscopes’ own Steve Lieber. Here are seven new clips from the upcoming movie.
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Consarn it, I can’t get pictures to load, stupid Blogger. Anyway, go over to Comic Book Resources to see a couple of stills from the WHITEOUT movie. -Parker (Oops! Here they are. That’s Kate Beckinsale as Carrie Stetko in the first one, and in the second one, that’s Gabriel Macht on the left as Pryce and Columbus Short on the right as Delfy.)
There are a bunch of sites out there showing this as the new poster for the movie adaptation of Whiteout. It looks like the poster story broke wide a couple of days ago at Beyond Hollywood, who got it from “eagle-eyed reader Don.” But it’s been on the net a while. The first place I ran into it was this message board. A poster named Hunter put it up back in September, and another poster, Batista, commented that he “saw it ages ago before the comic con one,” and that he thought he read it was fan made. Greg Rucka posted it on his LJ in October. While it certainly looks professional, as far as either of us know, it’s fan-made. Which is not to say it isn’t the real thing. Greg’s a producer on the movie but that doesn’t mean they run everything by him, and I only get little bits of news here and there, so I’ve got nothing to share. So until the poster’s designer comes forward, we’ve got a mystery here. In other Whiteout news, I’m told the remastered, definitive editions are doing doing really well in stores. (I certainly signed a ton of them this weekend in Mid-Ohio.) Here are a few notices folks have forwarded to me: Terri Nelson realized that the spammers who hijacked our old blog were still using our old template header which includes an image in our webspace. That made its possible for us to make the spam-blog’s header say this: We can’t stop them from saying “periscope” up top, but it’s something. Maybe we’ll mess with the image some more. In other news, this one came out of nowhere: Whiteout was name-checked in this web-comic. And Greg Rucka was on tv the other day where he talked about his new novel Patriot Acts, and of course, about Whiteout. And here’s a longer interview with Greg and Whiteout director Dominic Sena.
Greg Rucka and Dominic Sena talk to Comics2Film.com about WHITEOUT.
Publishers Weekly visits Periscope.
Newsarama’s Zack Smith covers the SDCC Comics Are Not Literature panel
How do they get these things? Latino Weeklyreviews a bootleg copy of the Whiteout movie script.
Playback St. Louis gives a rave review to Jesse Hamm’s Good as Lily. And hey, do you blog about comics? Send me a link to your blog and I’ll mail out some of Sara Ryan’s new mini comics, illustrated by studio members Ron Chan and Dylan Meconis! Several friends called and emailed to tell me about this in the New York Times. “These kinds of intimate, face-to-face, sometimes face-to-Darth Vader-mask moments seem crucial to the Comic-Con experience, part of the close bonds that comic books encourage between creators and readers. In the area called Artists’ Alley fans lined up with sketchbooks in which they collect drawings from favorite artists. Some cartoonists offer free sketches, others ask for a nominal payment ($20 or so), but all seemed happy to chat with every nervous adolescent and pushy adult who dropped by their table. Seated next to his wife and sometimes collaborator, Sara Ryan, Steve Lieber (“Whiteout”) graciously scratched out an image at the bequest of an aggressive fan, never breaking stride or losing his smile.” Wow. I’d forgotten just how much stammering I do before I actually start saying anything comprehensible in a sentence. It’s like watching a Hanna-Barbera character run in place with the bongo sounds going before he actually zips off. Extra TV made a visit to the Whiteout set and shot this interview with Kate Beckinsale. Turn down the sound on your computer so you don’t have to hear the creepy-ass voice-over guy. This was actually filmed one of the days I was there. And hey, as long as Warner Bros is showing a bit of the look of the film, I guess I might as well put up a few of my sketchbook doodles from the set:
Our daily list of Jeff Parker raves: Scans Daily | Face rockery | London Loves Comics | Johanna Draper’s Comics Worth Reading | Wednesday’s Haul | Newsarama Those Newsarama and Scans Daily links also have comics in them for you to read. Here’s a sharp review of a favorite webcomic of mine- Planet Saturday, by Pittsburgh-based illustrator Monty Kane. Douglas Wolk writes us:
Here’s a sketch from Jonathan Case of a character from his GN in progress, Sea Freak. -Steve Lieber, posting for Periscope. The Portland Tribune picked up on our show at Floating World and has some art. And that show, by the way is at 20 N.W. Fifth Ave. #101, Call 503-241-0227 for more info. (Special thanks to VJ for reminding us that information like the address of an event can come in handy.) This is the sort of thing that Jesse blogs about better than I do, but I followed a Journalista link to Austin Kleon’s post about “one point” perspective and thought it needed some sort of reply. (And I posted one there as well as here.) I won’t quote Austin’s post because most of it is images, but just to clarify I think the term he meant to use was “linear perspective” not “one-point perspective.” One-point perspective is a type of linear perspective. It’s used when there is only one vanishing point needed to construct an object or a space in a picture. Obviously when says “death to one point perspective” it’s just fun hyperbole, but I think in rejecting linear perspective, he’s throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It’s an extremely useful system for describing basic physical facts in a picture, like the distance between objects or their relative size. And offering readers the illusion of varying degrees of depth throughout the pages of a comic does a lot to keep the eye interested. What else? Jeff Parker’s Walk-In is becoming a sleeper favorite with the people who’ve found it. Here’s a review of the first five issues. Also Parker-centric: this reviewer declares Marvel Adventures:The Avengers #12 “absolute genius.” Comic-Con has announced that they’re “currently talking to the major Hollywood studios and the following films are under consideration for presentations at this year’s event.” Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace On Earth, American Gangster, Babylon A.D., Balls of Fury, Beowulf, The Bourne Ultimatum, Coraline, Fred Claus, Get Smart, The Golden Compass, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, I Am Legend, The Incredible Hulk, Indiana Jones 4, The Invasion, Iron Man, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Resident Evil: Extinction, Speed Racer, The Strangers, Stardust, Star Trek, Sunshine, Sweeney Todd, 30 Days of Night, Trick ‘r Treat, Wanted, Where the Wild Things Are, White Out I think that last one is actually this:
Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis’ Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love has landed another great review. This one’s at Publisher’s Weekly. And hey, Comics Worth Reading likes it, too. Also, re:the Bookslut review linked below, I’m told that Dylan Meconis is a “she,” rather than the “he” the review cites. Please alter your expectations accordingly. In other news, I’m writing this from an airport in Chicago, waiting for a flight to Montreal, where I’m going to be visiting the Whiteout set. To say I’m excited about this is kind of like saying “Orson put on a few pounds.” But I’m going to do my damnedest to present myself as a thoughtful and dignified professional, and not let my nerves turn me into some sputtering Jerry Lewis spaz-dork. I’ll let you know how it goes. -posted by Lieber |
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