I Kill Giants, Joe Kelly‘s critically acclaimed graphic novel is being developed into a movie.
Produced by Chris Columbus and recently were able to sign up a major name to the project – Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar) to play a leading role in the movie, directed by Anders Walter (Helium) who won an Oscar 2014 for short film category. Saldana is set to star alongside debuting actress Madison Wolfe.
Madison is set to be the outcast young girl Barbara whereas Zoe Saldana will be her helpful school psychologist, Mrs Molle. The young actress won the role after a nationwide search that auditioned close to over 500 girls.
The story talks about Barbara Thorson, who is a school misfit fighting imaginary and real monsters everyday. Mrs Molle provides the support to enable her to confront the fears and entities in psychological or physical form.
The graphic novel started under Image Comics in 2008 and finished with seven volumes in 2009. According to the creator, the story is about “It’s a story about a girl who’s a bit of an outsider – she’s funny, but totally in our geekland: she’s obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons, she doesn’t have a lot of friends, she’s a bit of a social misfit. She’s taken her fantasy life a little far, and really only talks about giants to people. She’s convinced that giants are real and giants are coming, and it’s her responsibility to stop them when they show up. This weird little fantasy life that she’s going has started seeping into her real life, and as we see things from her point of view, we see that she sees pixies and she sees signs in the clouds and other things that might be telling her that bad things might be coming.” (Newsarama, 2008)
I Kill Giants won “The Best Indie Book of 2008” by IGN, featured in top ten best comics of 2009 by New York magazine as was also cited in the 2010 top ten graphic novels for teens by Young Adult Library Services Association.
Last but not least, it also won the Gold Award at 5th International Manga Award 2012 and voted second best foreign comic book in Japan via the Gaiman Award.
Source: The Wrap
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