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Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese graphic novels is getting a live-action series adaptation via Studiocanal and Frank Miller

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Frank Miller ascendant? The week after the launch of the first two new series from his comic imprint Frank Miller Presents, news comes that Miller will be the creator, writer, and executive producer for a live-action adaptation of Hugo Pratt‘s Corto Maltese graphic novel series. In conjuction with Canal+, Studiocanal will develop six hourlong episodes.

Miller will be joined by Jemma Rodgers as EP and Silenn Thomas who is the CEO if Frank Miller Ink. Phil Tippett will oversee VFX. Studiocanal EVP Global Production Ron Halpern and Executive Managing Director TV Francoise Guyonnet will oversee for the studio.

Launched in 1967 by Pratt, Maltese is a sea captain whose adventures takes place in the early 20th century. The series ended in June 1989. The series ran from historical adventure to occult dream sequences. Animated films and an opera have been produced involving the character and a live-action film was to be released in 2020 but was cancelled due to legal problems.

Preview: Corto Maltese: MU The Lost Continent

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Corto Maltese: MU The Lost Continent

(W) Hugo Pratt (A/CA) Hugo Pratt
In Shops: Aug 12, 2020
SRP: $34.99

In this final entry of Hugo Pratt’s epic series, the master graphic novelist returns to the theme he first explored in the initial episode-the search for the lost continent of Mu, the mythical Atlantis. Featuring the return of most of the major characters seen throughout the long-running saga: Gold Mouth, Morgana, Tristan Bantam, Levi Colombia, Professor Steiner, “the Monk,” Cain Groovesnore, Soledad, and (of course) Rasputin… each with their own reason to find the mythical realm. Thus, the circle closes.

Corto Maltese: MU The Lost Continent

Preview: Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salty Sea

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Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salty Sea

(W) Hugo Pratt (A/CA) Hugo Pratt
In Shops: Mar 04, 2020
SRP: $34.99

Celebrate this milestone in the history of graphic novels, winner of the world’s first-ever “Best Graphic Novel” award, taking the prize in 1976 at the Angoulême Fesitval.

Originally serialized beginning in 1967, this book is universally acknowledged as Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece, in which he introduces Corto Maltese to the world. Corto is but one of a strong ensemble cast of characters whose lives permeate the entire 12-book series. It is here that we also meet the young and beautiful Pandora, her brother Cain, the mysterious criminal mastermind Monk, the grim and ferocious Rasputin, Lieutenant Slutter of the German Navy, and the natives Skull and Tarao. The Ballad of the Salty Sea is also hailed as the first example of the literary comic strip. Pratt was inspired by Conrad, Stevenson, and London, but even more directly by Henry de Vere Stacpool’s Blue Lagoon, from which the author got the idea of a small island in the Pacific which he named “Escondida.”

Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salty Sea

Preview: Corto Maltese: The Early Years

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Corto Maltese: The Early Years

Hugo Pratt (w & a & c)

This short adventure tells the backstory of Corto Maltese first meeting Rasputin at the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The protagonist of this tale is not the 18-year-old Corto but Rasputin—

a deserter from a Siberian rifle regiment—and the writer Jack London, who was a war correspondent in the region at that time. London is already friends with Corto and introduces the sailor to the unpredictable Russian, who even as a young man kills with disconcerting ease and is ready to lie and betray without hesitation. It is, however, “the beginning of a beautiful friendship” that continues throughout the series. As a bonus, the book includes additional material that sets up the entire series, as well as several never-before published pages that Pratt intended for a continuation of the tale, in which Corto and Rasputin were to embark on a search for King Solomon’s mines.

TPB • B&W • $19.99 • 64 pages • 9-1/4” x 11-5/8” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-503-6

Corto Maltese: The Early Years