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Frank-Miller: ardent admirer of colleague Hugo Pratt
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He is best known for powerful and grim graphic novels, some of which he himself adapts for cinema or television - including works such as »300«, »Sin City« or »The Dark Knight Returns«.
Frank Miller, 65, has now announced that he will stage a colleague's template as a live-action series.
The US artist wants to prepare the graphic novel »Corto Maltese« by Hugo Pratt in six one-hour parts for Studiocanal.
The eponymous hero is an adventurer and crook who meets some of the most influential figures in literary and contemporary history in a fantasy world of the early 20th century and dives into bizarre landscapes and seas.
Miller raves about his famous colleague Pratt and his distinctive drawing style: »I first met Corto Maltese as a young man when I was reading the books in Forbidden Planet in New York.
Later I discovered an issue at a kiosk in Rome.
The illustrations were so expressive and bold that they literally jumped out of the booklet.
The story pulled me in, full of magic and romantic adventure.«
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