Wiip is adapting the horror graphic novel Adamtine into a feature film.
All Aboard the Adamtine Train
Award-winning UK author Hannah Berry (Britten & Brulightly, Livestock) created the graphic novel in 2012, and will serve as Executive Producer on the project. Mare of Easttown Executive Producer Mark Roybal will produce the film alongside Paul Lee and Nate Winslow from wiip.
The story for Adamtine is about a mysterious connection between strangers on a train. The blurb for the book goes into a bit more detail.
All people could do was speculate on the fate of those who vanished – strangers; seemingly random, unconnected: all plucked from their lives and never seen again. The notes found left behind, apparently describing some slender reason for their removal, were all that linked them. They were all delivered by one man.
Rodney Moon had admitted seeing those who had been disappeared and to passing the notes, but denied any involvement beyond that. Who wrote the letters, then? Moon shrugged during the trial: ‘It has no name,’ he said. ‘It’s a bogeyman. A monster.’
He was not mourned when the vengeful bereft finally found him.
Some years later, four strangers; seemingly random, unconnected, all take the last train home. But something each of them has forgotten – or is trying to forget – is catching up with them; with a terrible, inexorable purpose. The devil is in the detail, as they say.
Berry also wrote the noir Britten & Brülightly and the dark satire Livestock, which won her a Best Writer award at the 2017 Broken Frontier Awards, as well as securing a nomination for Best Graphic Novel.
A comics creator, scriptwriter, illustrator, and campaigner, as well as a graphic novelist, she has contributed comics to anthologies and publications from 2000AD to the New England Journal of Medicine and was a cartoonist for New Statesman and Prospect Magazine. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she’s seen editions of her books published in the U.S., France, Holland, Serbia, and Italy while exhibiting her artwork in solo and collective exhibitions worldwide.
Berry said about the announcement, “I’m delighted beyond measure, and hugely grateful to Emma Topping for making it happen. I’m very much looking forward to working with wiip and – in the best possible way – unsettling a lot of people together.”
There are currently no details on a director or cast for the adaptation.
