When most people heard about a new Jack the Ripper film starring Johnny Depp in 2001, comic books were likely the last thing on their minds. After all, most popular comics deal with superheroes and villains, not slasher serial killers from Victorian London.
The movie featured stellar performances by Depp and Heather Graham, who brought the characters to life in a fantastically set motion picture. The story, sets, and high production value place the film fairly high in its genre, but it doesn’t scream “comic book movie” in any way.
From Hell is based on a comic of the same name by legendary scribe Alan Moore of Watchmen fame. It was illustrated by Eddie Campbell, and like most of Moore’s work, it’s a highly praised book many consider his magnum opus. From Hell was published between 1989 and ’98 by Top Shelf Productions.
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The collaborations between David Cronenberg and his dramatic muse Viggo Mortensen will continue with Crimes of the Future, but the first three films they ve done share a transformative theme.
Viggo Mortensen Teases David Cronenberg Reunion That Returns Director to His Horror Origins
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Viggo Mortensen Teases David Cronenberg Reunion That Returns Director to His Horror Origins
Viggo Mortensen is teaming up with director David Cronenberg once again for a body-horror film noir.
David Cronenberg three times. The pair produced the one-two punch of superb thrillers in 2005 s
A History of Violence and 2007 s
Eastern Promises. Now, David Cronenberg plays the memorable role of a doctor in Mortensen s directorial debut
Falling, in theaters this Friday. With those first two Mortensen collaborations taking the filmmaker out of the genre he had become so adept at, Cronenberg has not produced another horror outing since. Well, according to Mortensen, that is about to change, with the actor/director duo set to team-up again on a project that will take Cronenberg back to his roots.