Showing posts with label mark millar. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Books On Film | Fifty Shades of Grey & Kingsman: The Secret Service


There are two book adaptations being released this Valentine's Day weekend. 

The first, a film adaptation of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which was expanded into a trilogy, about a woman who enters into a BDSM relationship with her wealthy, handsome love interest.
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. 
The second, a film adaptation Mark Millar's graphic novel Kingsman: The Secret Service about a newly trained spy and his trainer discovering a conspiracy when investigating missing actors and a mass murder.
The world's greatest secret agent is on the most exciting case of his career. But will the end of the world as know it take a back seat to training his street-punk nephew to be the next James Bond?

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Books On Film | Kick-Ass 2

Yesterday saw the release of Kick-Ass 2, a sequel to the movie Kick-Ass (2010). Both films are live-action adaptations of graphic novels by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.

Despite the fact that the story revolves around young protagonists, there is a lot of violence in both the graphic novels and the movies. Neither the graphic novels or movies were written for children/teens. 

The original graphic novel follows teenager Dave Lizewski, who is determined to turn himself into a real-life superhero (Kiss-Ass). He runs across an ex-cop, who has trained his eleven year old daughter to be a vigilante named Hit-Girl, in his quest to take down a drug lord and his son.

The movie sequel is based on the Kiss-Ass 2 and Hit Girl graphic novels. It follows Dave as he joins a vigilante group called "Justice Forever," Hit-Girl as she enters retirement,  and the arrival of a new villain.

The first graphic novel and movie in the series (below).

 

Cover art courtesy of LibraryThing.
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