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No man’s landa well-received Image Comics limited series from Szymon Kudrański, takes a step into big screen territory.
The property is in development as a film from producer Jason Berman’s A/Vantage Pictures, as well as Kudrański and Jon Levin’s sustainable Imagination.
Producer Berman released the Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest Last year, while John Levine was in the Oscar race with the short documentary All empty rooms.
According to the line of reasoning: “For three months every year, you can walk from the United States to Russia across an ice bridge – a frozen path known as an ice bridge.” Ice curtain. In 1963, when a woman’s frozen body is discovered in this forbidden icy region, the already fragile geopolitical balance between these two countries threatens to collapse. As nuclear tensions escalate, a veteran FBI agent and an ambitious new KGB agent are forced into an uneasy alliance to solve the murder – before the ice thaws and a global conflict erupts.
Published by Image under Kudrański’s One Man Art imprint, the book completed its four-issue run late last year, earning comparisons to David Fincher films such as Zodiac and SE7EN.
The book is inspired by the Diomede Islands, a pair of islands located directly between Alaska and Siberia.
“When I first learned about the Diomede Islands, one question immediately came up: What if a body was found right in the middle of the ice bridge – technically belonging to no one, outside of any apparent jurisdiction?” Kudransky noted in a statement. “This location required a story. Two villages on opposite sides of a frozen strait. From a geopolitical standpoint, two rival nuclear superpowers bound by a thin layer of ice for only three months each year – which is almost poetic in how a truce can be as fragile as the ice itself.”
Kudransky, known as Spawn, Action Comics and punisher, He created, wrote and provided art for No man’s land. He has worked with editor Tom Williams and letterer D.C. Hopkins, and the paperback book is scheduled for release in April.
For the book, he delved into more than 100 years of newspaper archives, discovering that “the most disturbing and mysterious activity occurred during the Cold War—reports of missing people, unexplained deaths, and events that were never fully accounted for.”
