Dark Horse to produce Emily the Strange movie
Counterculture icon, and merchandising powerhouse, Emily the Strange is heading to the big screen, courtesy of Dark Horse Entertainment President Mike Richardson.
The movie will detail the origin of 13-year-old goth and her four cats Sabbath, Nee-Chee, Miles and Mystery. It also will introduce 13 new characters in a story that will form the basis of an Emily young-adult novel set to be published next year by HarperCollins.
Skateboarder Rob Reger created Emily in 1991 to appear on stickers, T-shirts and skateboards. The character and designs took hold, turning Reger’s Cosmic Debris into a multimillion-dollar business. Emily now appears on everything from school supplies and clothing to playing cards and comic books. Dark Horse began publishing Emily the Strange comics in 2005.
Although the film isn’t set up with a studio, Universal seems a likely choice because of its first-look deal with Dark Horse.
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ah, the MTV movie awards. I actually used to look forward to those as they were aimed at all movie fans, like the year they had the cast of NEWHART recreat a scene from BRAVEHEART, on film so that it looked real! Or the year they had William Shatner sing all the nominated best songs. But they’ve kept aiming at younger and younger audiences until 2 years ago it was clearly not aimed at anyone over the age of 18, and the way they stretched their Star Wars theme show to include having some hip-hop group which never had anything to do with Star Wars, dressed as Star Wars characters (and they didn’t look at all happy about it) just belabored the point. I skipped it last year. Let’s see what they do this year.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:42 am
That was Gnarles Barkley. Their gimmick is dressing up like characters from Star Wars and doing their act. MTV snagged it from when they did the same thing for David Letterman.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Emily dresses more art school girl than goth. Very few ever make the distinction, correctly, particularly in comics.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:28 am
usually i don’t get of what this character is all about. but is obvious there would be some gothfan to see it. i M WITH YA THE RUSSIAN POSTER IS BETTER.