Another book from Vertigo Comics has been picked up for a media deal, this time a movie. The Kitchen, by Ollie Masters, Ming Doyle, Becky Cloonan has been picked up by New Line Cinema.
Copies of The Kitchen 1 have been selling nicely
, however, people are missing out on the first appearance of the book and characters in Vertigo Defy 2014
which can be grabbed cheap. The Diamond estimated sales on this one is 12,787.
From CBR.com
New Line Cinema has begun development of a film based on the Vertigo crime comic “The Kitchen
.”
The Tracking Board reports “Straight Outta Compton” screenwriter Andrea Berloff will pen the adaptation.
Characterized as “‘Goodfellas’ meets ‘Mob Wives,'” the eight-issue miniseries by writer Ollie Masters and artist Ming Doyle follows three women in 1970s New York City who are each married to a member of the mafia. When their husbands are sent to prison, the wives step up and take over the family business. However, when they realize they actually enjoy the work, the face the question of what happens when there husbands are released.
Berloff, who along with Jonathan Herman received an Academy Award nomination for “Straight Outta Compton,” also wrote Oliver Stone’s 2006 disaster drama “World Trade Center.”
Sam Brown and Michael Disco will executive produce “The Kitchen
Most of the books can still be picked up at Mycomicshop (#1 is gone.)
Sorry for the lateness of getting this up. Thanks to Brian S. for sending it over this morning. The signing and fathers day weekend got in the way (I am just one guy.)
This could definitely be a good one! Andrea Berloff is writing. She was nominated for an Academy Award and Writer’s Guild of America award for her screenplay for Straight Outta Compton. Having her and New Line Cinema attached, I’d say this is pretty much a lock to get finished.
She is no joke. I just got the variant for $9.99 (last one) and a regular cover (plus another Batman #1
As of writing this Amazon had a few sellers with the variant for $9.95. Picked one up to add to my ever growing option box! Also picked up a Defy 2014 for $1.
Thanks I’ll grab those
🙂 I forgot to check Amazon as I was getting the books from a certain Chicago based Internet retailer
There were a total of three sellers that had them for sale by the time I checked. I did pick up one. Still, have to take Amazon with a grain of salt. It reminds me of Ebay in the early 2K’s. Not many rules and dealers can get away with a lot. No real grading guidelines for collectibles, photos don’t have to be shown and even after I purchase items they still get cancelled or sometimes never sent….Usually after something gets “hot”. I would have to say on average, for me, about one out of five purchases either gets canceled after the fact or simply never get shipped because of that. I only use Amazon if I am late to the party and what I am looking for is sold out everywhere else. Amazon just plain sucks for collectibles.
I order stuff from Amazon Market place all the time and with Amazons very liberal return policy have never been stuck with anything less than satisfactory
I agree that Amazon needs a revamp when it comes to selling collectibles. Pictures of the items your buying not just a general picture, combined shipping some sellers offer combined shipping but you have to pay $4 per book for shipping on every book in your order before the seller refunds the extra shipping which is a huge pain if you want to buy say 20x $1.50 book and end up with $110 charge. Amazon needs to hire me and give me a job of modernizing its selling format for collectibles and making it buyer friendly.
No kidding. I have contacted Amazon but it has fallen on deaf ears. Even after I complained when a Hulk 181 I bought a few years back turned out to be a Marvel team up worth about fifty cents. I used Amazon credit for that and got all of my money returned, including shipping and insurance for the book, but Amazon simply doesn’t care right now. It is ever affects their bottom line to the point where they notice they may do something, but right now they just shrug off poor or unscrupulous sellers and write it off. I’ve come across some sellers that I trust and they have not let me down, but always have to cross my fingers with new ones… Far too often those new ones turn out to be deadbeat sellers or sellers that over-grade like crazy.
I just bought some planet of the apes pops off Amazon that were supposed to be new and unopened. When I got them the boxes were mangled the box as set out in the rain and was smashed up. It wasn’t the outer box that caused the problem it was poor packaging. I made one call to Amazon they refunded everything and I didn’t have to return the pops
I’ve had Amazon tell me a couple of times to not worry about sending an item back. The first time was with a small and really cheap kids book. It happened again with a Walking Dead trade. That one was even our fault. My wife ordered a book I already had for a present. Amazon didn’t care. Keep the duplicate book and we’ll send you the right one for free.
This was a really solid series. I’m glad it got picked up. Hopefully the books see a nice spike in value.