By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/10/2015
Debuting today at NYCC, here’s the first trailer for Cinemax’s adaptation of Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta’s Outcast. Outside of The Knick, there’s not a lot drawing my eyes over to that network, but perhaps this can change that.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/12/2015
After The Walking Dead became a massive hit for AMC, it was only a matter of time before another network came calling for Robert Kirkman. This time around it’ll be Cinemax, as Variety reports that the premium channel just picked up his and Paul Azaceta‘s Image series Outcast for a full series order.
Patrick Fugit (Gone Girl, Almost Famous) stars in this 10 episode series centered on a young man who sets off to find answers as to why he’s been possessed by demons since he was a child. Philip Glenister co-stars as the evangelist who assists him.
The initial pilot has already been filmed and was directed by Adam Wingard, who you may know best as the filmmaker behind last year’s The Guest (a really fun film) and 2013’s You’re Next. The pilot’s script was written by Kirkman.
There’s no word on when the series will see an air date, but given the timing and the status of the pilot, it’s quite possible that it debuts as early as the Fall of this year.
Will this be enough to get you to subscribe to Cinemax if you haven’t already?
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 7/11/2014
OUTCAST #1, the new book by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta has been a huge success, we’re told with orders surpassing The Walking Dead #128 with a print run of 86,000 copies. Even more impressive? The book shipped without ANY variants.
However it still shows up on the Diamond chart at #11 because 10% of the orders were subtracted because it shipped returnable.
There haven’t BEEN any returns, but that’s how Diamond runs the numbers, and even though the second printing was enormous, and there are more than 4000 copies on backorder, it still gets the returnability discount from Diamond.
Which, to be fair, is how they do things. It’s just that in this case it isn’t representative of how the book actually sold.
Personal to Chris Rice: nota bene
As for the book itself, it was a pretty groovy double sized first issue with a strong new lead character and some tasty art by Azaceta.
What did y’all think?
I am really enjoying Outcast. I have heard grumbling that it is simply an Exorcist story, but that does not faze me. It’s solid, creepy, and transmits a relentlessly sombre air. Bravo.