Back in April of 2011 The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde hit stores and flew well under the radar. I remember in my occasional passing through of the local store I did at one point in time come across this title but didn’t think much of it. I think it might have had to do with the over-saturation of the Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde theme in so much media that I just passed it over. Then comes the feeling of,” Even if I want to read it I probably won’t find all the issues.”
WHAM!
The trade of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde is slated for release February 22nd. That and there is a little more news tacked on.
“We developed the take for the script for almost a year, based on my outline for the comic book. First came the comic book outline, see, then the film outline based on that. Subsequently, I wrote the comic script off the film outline, which is backwards I know, but the process revealed all sorts of new details and character work I hadn’t anticipated. Almost immediately, I wrote the screenplay, or the film script, based on the comic script this time. Not the film outline. I know, weird. I was so happy with how the screenplay turned out, I went back and revised the comic script based on what I learned in this next step in the process. That’s how the comic became the comic and the film became the film.” – Cole Haddon (Newsarama)
Currently this is in the process of finding a studio to call home before anything is truly official. Having now read the series myself I can safely say I misplaced it in the box of recycled stuff. I guess that was the difficult part in all of this. Its not a story focusing souly on the standard Jeckyl and Hyde idea as much as a detective story. Good stuff.
My vote is for Robert Downey Jr. as Jeckyl.
