Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp has signed with graphic novel publisher Casterman for the big screen adaptation rights to Jacques Tardi’s classic comic book series “Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec,” reports Variety.
EuropaCorp plans a three-movie big screen transition, the first being scheduled for delivery in 2009.
Published since 1976, with nine novels to date, “Aventures” is set between 1911 and 1922 in a Paris traumatized by World War I.
Their heroine, Adele Blanc-Sec, a fetching popular novelist pursued by dumb cops, monsters, rancorous villains and wannabe lovers, is sometimes taken as an early feminist figure in French comic books.
