Titan Comics have announced a graphic novel based on the 1976 David Bowie film The Man Who Fell To Earth, written by Dan Watters (“Lucifer,” “Home Sick Pilots”), with art by Dev Pramanik (“Dune: House Atreides”). Like the film (which was in turn based on the 1963 prose novel by Walter Tevis), the book follows Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien who comes to Earth to obtain water for his dying world.
“Using his advanced scientific knowledge, Thomas becomes incredibly rich thanks to dozens of inventions his company releases. He uses his wealth to search for a way to transport water back to his home planet, but as his wealth and his fame grows, Thomas becomes a target of interest to the U.S. government, who begin to investigate him.”
In the press release, Watters says “The Man Who Fell to Earth is a masterpiece of a film with an awful lot to say; about men, about the Earth, and lots of things in between. There are ideas in the film, about climate crises and corporate greed, that are more relevant now than they were when [director] Nicolas Roeg set out to make it. And now here we are. I think it’s high time to look at the world through Thomas Newton’s mismatched eyes all over again. Perhaps he’ll see something we’ve been missing.”
The hardcover graphic novel will be published sometime in Fall 2022, and will retail at 128 pages for $29.99. Its release will more or less coincide with the upcoming Showtime series based on the novel (starring as Chiwetel Ejiofor as the alien, now known as Faraday, and Naomie Harris), which is set to premiere sometime in the spring. In the meantime, check out a preview below.
