Ben Kingsley is set to star in a new feature film which will be an adaptation of ‘Violent Cases’. Oscar and Grammy-winning actor got on board for the first-ever adaptation of a graphic novel. Violent Cases is a graphic novel from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Ben Kingsley will play the osteopath. Writer Mike Carey, director Colm McCarthy and producer Camille Gatin will lead the feature. It will be produced by Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions, and Foton Pictures.
According to Variety, Kingsley said, “I’m delighted to be working with this fantastic team on ‘Violent Cases’, which for me is about the power and importance of storytelling, about how we negotiate the shadows cast by the father figures in our lives and above all about the right of our inner child to be heard”.
“‘Violent Cases’ is a journey into the mind of Neil Gaiman, as a famous author recounts fragmented childhood memories and visits to an osteopath who once worked for Al Capone, weaving a dark and twisting tale about stories, our memory, violence and the ways we can’t escape our past,” reads the logline.
Ben signed to star in an adaptation of Gaiman and Dave McKean’s 1987 graphic novel ‘Violent Cases’. This will be the first collaboration between the writer and the artist.
McCarthy said: “‘Violent Cases’ is a wild, hallucinatory, yet thought provoking and emotional comic. It’s so exciting to build a film from this incredible, genre-defining work.”
Carey added: “As an aspiring writer back in the late 80s reading ‘Violent Cases’ was a revelation and a joy for me. Its darkness and playfulness defined a new approach to storytelling. Thirty-five years on, it’s still unique, and bringing it across into a new medium feels like discovering it again for the first time. Neil Gaiman redefined serialised comics with ‘The Sandman,’ but ‘Violent Cases’ was his and Dave McKean’s early masterpiece. It’s thrilling to be introducing it to a new audience, and taking its visual lyricism into a new medium.”
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