Ed Brubaker Teaming With David Slade To Adapt ‘Coward’
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2011 5:00 pm EST
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Multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker has just signed to adapt the first arc in his Criminal comic series, Coward, into a live action film. David Slade, director of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and upcoming Daredevil reboot, is attached to direct.
Variety broke the news of this deal, which will happen under the Hunting Lane Films banner. They previously released Half Nelson and Blue Valentine and Brubaker told Variety the star of those movies, Ryan Gosling, would have been perfect for Coward’s lead role of Leo…if it wasn’t for his recent work:
Slade also spoke to Variety about coming on board to develop and direct the property:
Now the trick will be making it work on the page without drawings and then on the screen, without speech bubbles.
‘Coward’ was just a great modern story. It harkens back to an era of crime stories where there’s really a gritty reality to it, but there’s a kind of underworld haze of noir. It’s not like we have to reinvent the material, to figure it out, because it already works.
Are you a fan of Brubaker or Coward? What do you think about Slade helming the material?
