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Sunday 24 August 2014

Sentinels adapted to film the first concept art

 I have seen the art for Sentinels -I even posted pages a couple years back- but never had the books but they do look great.

And my THANKS to Sebchoc for this snippet. This should be good!!
 

   
While Marvel and DC heroes break movie box office records, the French superhero has finally been reborn from the ashes and guilt of the Second World War. After nearly seventy years, we can finally speak without shame of supermen in comics in Franco-Belgian entertainment by adding to the popular genre set in the early twentieth century.  

The two most prominent projects are Squad Chimeric by Serge Lehman and Gess on one hand  and Thunderbirds Xavier Dorisson and Enrique Breccia on the other. This last series, originally published by Robert Laffont in 2008 and recently taken over by Editions Delcourt sees the design of the first machine men during the First World War. A sort of Iron Man in the trenches whose film adaptation has been entrusted to the young director Julien Mokrani.
 
The famous ad film producers have been sending out early concept art by artists and designers from film, video games and, of course, comics: Greg Broadmore (Avatar, King Kong Peter Jackson Tintin Steven Spielberg and District 9). Vincent Aupetit and teams of London visual effects studio Third Floor (Gravity), Guillaume Lapeyre (City Hall), Johann Blaye (Papayou), Ronan Toulhoat (Block 109, Team Chaos).
 
Until the release of the film, fans can soothe their excitement with the release of the fourth book in the series, scheduled for mid-October at Delcourt.

Now I've had to do a lot of re-writing here as Google Translate is AWFUL so, for those interested, here is the original French text:

 Alors que les héros Marvel et DC enchainent records sur records au box office, les super-héros français renaissent enfin des cendres de la culpabilité de la seconde guerre mondiale. Après près de soixante-dix ans, on peut enfin parler sans honte de surhommes dans la bande dessinée de divertissement franco-belge, un genre littéraire populaire pourtant foisonnant au début du XXe siècle. Les deux projets les plus marquants de cette mouvance sont La Brigade Chimérique de Serge Lehman et Gess d'une part , et Les Sentinelles de Xavier Dorisson et Enrique Breccia d'autre part. Cette dernière série, parue initialement chez Robert Laffont en 2008 puis reprise récemment par les éditions Delcourt, raconte la conception des premiers hommes machines durant la première guerre mondiale. Une sorte d'Iron-Man dans les tranchées dont l'adaptation au cinéma vient d'être confiée au jeune réalisateur Julien Mokrani.
La production célèbre l'annonce du film en diffusant les premiers concept art réalisés par des dessinateurs et des designers issus du cinéma, du jeux vidéo et, bien sûr, de la bande dessinée : Greg Broadmore (Avatar, le King Kong de Peter Jackson, le Tintin de Steven Spielberg et District 9). Vincent Aupetit et les équipes du studio d'effets visuels londonien Third Floor (Gravity), Guillaume Lapeyre (City hall), Johann Blaye (Papayou), Ronan Toulhoat (Block 109, Chaos Team).
En attendant la sortie du film, les amateurs pourront ronger leurs freins avec la parution du quatrième tome de la série, prévue pour mi-octobre chez Delcourt.


CONCEPT ART









Absolutely gorgeous art and now, as its big business, Franco-Belgian mainstream comics can embrace super heroes -Editions LUG did decades ago and more recently Hexagon and Wanga Comics also, but these were the "poor relations" in BD....not any more!


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