CELLAR DOOR SIGNS WITH AMERICAN McGEE
Cellar Door Publishing has announced an agreement signed with The Mauretania Import Export Company (TMIEC), a Los Angeles based videogame, film, and television production company, have signed an agreement to publish graphic novels based on the American McGee properties: Bad Day LA, American McGee’s Oz, and American McGee’s Grimm.
After beginning his career at is Software, McGee is probably best known as the creator of American McGee’s Alice a Tim Burton meets Jhonen Vasquez style (read: so not Disney) take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In the game Alice, now a disturbed young woman, returns to Wonderland after her parents are killed, only to find the realm dark and threatening – a place where she must confront her own fears and the Queen of Hearts.
McGee has said in interviews that his life’s mission is “to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries." To these ends, McGee has pushed his more recent productions, American McGee’s Oz and American McGee’s Grimm into film before the games are completed, due in part to frustrations with game companies wanting established market names (i.e., sequels to popular games or media tie ins). Alice (which sold over 1 million copies for the PC) is already in pre-production with Sarah Michelle Gellar slated to star in the title role for Universal.
McGee’s latest game, Bad Day L.A. is due for release on PC and Xbox in early 2006.
The graphic novels will be concieved by McGee, and written by other creators. Bad Day LA will be based on the stories and characters in the upcoming game, while Oz will incorporate the dark, stylized and edgy elements of McGee’s vision, and Grimm follows in the tradition of the American McGee brand by bring to life a children's fairytale world in a twisted style and manner.
“We’re very excited to work with American and TMIEC,” stated Cellar Door publisher Jade Dodge in a release. “American has created worlds filled with endless possibilities for writers and artists. His properties are also a perfect fit for this medium. American McGee fans and fans of comic books in general are going to be pleased with what we have in store.”
“Cellar Door has taken on three projects that are dear to me,” said McGee. “Graphic novels are a natural extension into the stories I develop and build. Graphic art drives each and every one of the stories that I write, from the character concepts to the environment sketches, each new project becomes a fount of imagery. I am excited, and I think fans will be too, that Cellar Door is going to open this flow of imagery to the outside world, and in the best way possible.”
Plans call for the releases in the first half of 2006.
After beginning his career at is Software, McGee is probably best known as the creator of American McGee’s Alice a Tim Burton meets Jhonen Vasquez style (read: so not Disney) take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In the game Alice, now a disturbed young woman, returns to Wonderland after her parents are killed, only to find the realm dark and threatening – a place where she must confront her own fears and the Queen of Hearts.
McGee has said in interviews that his life’s mission is “to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries." To these ends, McGee has pushed his more recent productions, American McGee’s Oz and American McGee’s Grimm into film before the games are completed, due in part to frustrations with game companies wanting established market names (i.e., sequels to popular games or media tie ins). Alice (which sold over 1 million copies for the PC) is already in pre-production with Sarah Michelle Gellar slated to star in the title role for Universal.
McGee’s latest game, Bad Day L.A. is due for release on PC and Xbox in early 2006.
The graphic novels will be concieved by McGee, and written by other creators. Bad Day LA will be based on the stories and characters in the upcoming game, while Oz will incorporate the dark, stylized and edgy elements of McGee’s vision, and Grimm follows in the tradition of the American McGee brand by bring to life a children's fairytale world in a twisted style and manner.
“We’re very excited to work with American and TMIEC,” stated Cellar Door publisher Jade Dodge in a release. “American has created worlds filled with endless possibilities for writers and artists. His properties are also a perfect fit for this medium. American McGee fans and fans of comic books in general are going to be pleased with what we have in store.”
“Cellar Door has taken on three projects that are dear to me,” said McGee. “Graphic novels are a natural extension into the stories I develop and build. Graphic art drives each and every one of the stories that I write, from the character concepts to the environment sketches, each new project becomes a fount of imagery. I am excited, and I think fans will be too, that Cellar Door is going to open this flow of imagery to the outside world, and in the best way possible.”
Plans call for the releases in the first half of 2006.
posted by Phil Thomas at 8/14/2005 01:12:00 pm
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