McCloud is repped by WME, Judy Hansen and Jackoway Tyerman. Mitnick is repped by WME, Grandview and Sloane Offer. He is currently writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Idris Elba to direct and star in for Netflix.Ģ1 Laps is currently developing Warners’ Sesame Street movie as well as working with Greg Berlanti to adapt the sci-fi teen musical Be More Chill.Ĭretton is repped by WME and Stone Genow. Mitnick’s screen career includes The Giver, the adaptation of the acclaimed YA book by Lois Lowry, as well as The Current War, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon. Comics writer/illustrator and theorist McCloud (Making Comics, 2006, etc.) presents an artist’s struggle to make a name for himself and the complications love brings to the Faustian deal hes made to gain total control of his craft. His film breakout was the drama Short Term 12, and he last directed the Brie Larson drama The Glass Castle. Sculptor reunites Cretton with Warners, for whom he is shooting his latest movie, the true-life legal drama Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Warners’ Niija Kuykendall and Rebecca Cho will be overseeing for the studio with Becca Edelman overseeing for 21 Laps. Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps will produce. Mitnick will write the script with Cretton directing. Sony picked up the rights with Scott Rudin attached to produce, but the rights recently reverted, with 21 Laps, the film-television banner behind Stranger Things, pouncing and developing its take with Cretton and Mitnick. He spent five years making Sculptor, which was published in 2015 amid heavy fanfare. This inventive and touching love story is compelling proof that McCloud can walk the walk as well as talking the talk. McCloud is the creator of 1980s comic Zot! and gained widespread artistic recognition for his instructive graphic novels Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. With his new massive graphic novel The Sculptor, McCloud marries that rigorous academia to an evocative epic that explores the metaphysics and emotions of creation. China Film Pavilion in Cannes Showcases Hits, Opens Door to Potential Partners

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud