Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
In case you missed it, Marvel and Sony released the trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. We also interviewed Simon Hanselmann about his new book, “Crisis Zone.”
– Per Newsarama, American Mythology Productions will publish “Fright Night: Dead by Dawn,” a new comic book series based on the classic vampire comedy Fright Night. Written by American Mythology publisher James Kuhoric, with art by Cyrus Mesarcia, the comic will pick up with the main characters a year after the events of the 1985 film, ignoring all other sequels to the movie. The film’s writer/director, Tom Holland (not to be confused with the 25-year old Spider-Man actor), is also involved with the comic. The first issue releases November 24.
– Via CBR, Dead Good Comics will publish “Octobriana With Love,” a 64-page graphic novel that will mark the 50th anniversary of Czech creator Petr Sadecký’s communist superheroine. The 64-page book will see the character embark on the rescue of “Lucretia Hussain, a young [British] vlogger destined to be a figurehead for a future revolution,” while clashing with her nemesis Baba Yaga. It was written by Stephanie Phillips, Stu Taylor and Andrea Towers, and its artists include Simon Fraser, Marc Laming, Stephen Byrne, Nicole Goux, Juni Ba, and more. It will be released on November 3, and retail for $9.99.
– Netflix released the first photos from the live-action Cowboy Bebop series, and confirmed the show will premiere on November 19. Based on the anime by Sunrise, Cowboy Bebop will star John Cho as Sam Spiegel, a planet-hopping bounty hunter in the year 2071. The show will also star Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) as Jet Black, the co-pilot of Spike’s ship the Bebop; Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) as Faye Valentine, the third member of the trio; and Ein the corgi.
– Variety reports filming has begun on a French/American/Japanese co-production of the manga series “Kami, no Shizuku,” titled Drops of God. Based on the comic by writers Yuko and Shin Kibayashi, and artist Okimoto Shu, the show follows a woman who inherits the world’s greatest wine collection from her estranged father, but who must also enter a competition with a Japanese man her father regarded as a son, in order to claim it. Fleur Geffrier (Elle) and Yamashita Tomohisa (The Head) will star in the eight-part series, which is being produced by Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Télévisions, and Hulu Japan (with Legendary in charge of selling the show to all territories except France and Japan.)
– Norwegian comic book movie Ninjababy won four awards at its country’s most prestigious film ceremony, the Amanda Awards, including Best Director for Yngvild Sve Flikke; Best Actress for Kristine Kujath Thorp; Best Supporting Actor for Nader Khademi; and Best Screenplay for Flikke, Johan Fasting, and Inga H. Sætre. Based on Sætre’s graphic novel “The Art of Falling,” the comedy film follows Rakel, an aspiring artist who discovers she is six months pregnant, and that the father is not her boyfriend. The film, which premiered in the US at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March, has not been picked up by a local distributor.
– Finally, did you know that in the Iron Man movies, the Ten Rings symbol had Mongolian lettering? Variety has the full story on the logo (created by Dianne Chadwick), which was changed to feature Chinese calligraphy in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. According to the trade paper, Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Mongolia’s minister of culture, sports and tourism in 2013, complained to Marvel that the use of their script “tied the country’s intangible cultural heritage to a terrorist group.” However, Tsedevdamba now regrets filing the complaint, especially after China began a crackdown on the teaching of the script in Inner Mongolia: she believes her letter may have provided Marvel with a “bad excuse for the change,” and that she wishes “Marvel had stood firm on its use of Mongolian script. I want the world to use it — any movie, in any way.”
