FABLES set for a Film Adaptation

One of the best comic books, and one of the most highly-praised comics series (and winner of 14 Eisner Awards), to come out of DC's Vertigo is FABLES. The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York. Now, FABLES is set to be adapted into a film. [read the rest of the article after the jump]

Director of the Oscar-nominated "A Royal Affair" Nikolaj Arcel has signed on to direct the adaptation, and screenwriter Jeremy Slater will pen the script.  Furthermore, David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films (the producers behind the Harry Potter franchise) are on board to produce.

The development of a Fables movie has been going on for a while now. In 2004, Warner Brothers tried to develop an adaptation with the Jim Henson Company, but that never got to the screenwriting stage.  Then in 2008, ABC was planning to adapt it into a TV series, but that also never materialized. But what followed was ABC launching their own fairy-tale-characters-in-the-real-world series, entitled "Once Upon a Time" which can be considered as a blatant rip-off of the idea that was presented to them.

No filming date or scheduled release date has been announced as of yet. But Fables is really something to look forward to. Jeremy Slater is the writer of the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. While Nikolaj Arcel is recently working on a feature adaption fo Don Winslow's "The Power of the Dog" and a remake of Hitchcock's "Rebecca" for Dreamworks.