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Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 22:30:11 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: post apocalyptic movie news book poster exclusive

I'm a massive fan of the apocalypse fiction of British author John Christopher (AKA Sam Youd). Have been for a long time. Even though his writing has a tendency to lean more towards the YA end of storytelling (read: "The Tripods Trilogy") his tales of survival are often told in a refreshingly frank and brutal style.

That's why I was excited to hear that a joint venture between Lago in Germany and Cherry Road Films (the folks behind Southland Tales) would give one of his most beloved novels, "Empty World", new life on film. The man given the task of adapting it? American director, Lucas Howe, who luckily for us, is as much a fan of the novel as we are:

"For the screenplay, I've tried to hold true to the source material as much as possible. I got to know Sam Youd (John Christopher) during the course of optioning the novel and writing the script. He told me that he had never been able to watch any of the film adaptations of his work as he's inevitably found them disappointing. I want to make this into a film that fans will love and that Sam can be proud of (or at the very least sit through in its entirety!)."

Howe has also passed along the first poster to share as well as a piece of concept art. The art shows some scope to the landscape, but just makes me want to see more from the production. Hopefully we'll have more to show you soon.

Until then, check out the embiggened poster and concept art after the break.




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Exciting!! Can't wait to see this!

Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2010 07:15:34 pm | permalink

Wow!!! Poster looks promising!! who is in the film? do they have a cast yet?

Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2010 07:32:58 pm | permalink

Sick poster!! This movie is gonna rock.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2010 08:59:26 pm | permalink

I love the Poster! look forward to watching the film!!!!

Posted by: Sonia Arrubla | January 13, 2010 09:05:11 pm | permalink

Who's the kid in the poster?

Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2010 09:54:09 pm | permalink

I can't wait to see what Lucas Howe does with this amazing material. If you go to the Upset website (upset.tv) and click on Spiderfly you can see a pretty amazing short film by Lucas in a similar genre.

Posted by: Big Fan | January 14, 2010 03:50:26 am | permalink

Lucas is a brilliant director, I'm a big fan of his work. I look forward to seeing this film!!! - Max http://indigoprod.com/

Posted by: Max | January 14, 2010 06:44:11 am | permalink

user icon They have a cast, but can't release details just yet. We're hoping to get a bit more info soon though, so stay tuned.

Posted by: agentorange | January 14, 2010 08:55:23 am | permalink

Love this book! Poster makes me wanna see this film for sure. When is it coming out?

Posted by: Anonymous | January 14, 2010 10:17:55 am | permalink

I have met Lucas. He is incredibly talented and extremely creative. I am also a fan of the material. This is a perfect match.

Posted by: Bill | January 14, 2010 10:43:12 am | permalink

WHOOHOOO!!!!! I'm a HUGE fan of Mr. Christopher's books. I'd love to see a new "No Blade of Grass" but will definitely settle for "Empty World"!!!

Posted by: davin | January 14, 2010 11:49:08 am | permalink

so this is basically "Lord of the Flies" in the apocalypse rite?
i got interested and found the wikipedia stub on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_World
your gonna have the whole movie synopsis soon?
sounds very intriguing.

Posted by: KelvarofArda | January 14, 2010 12:33:19 pm | permalink

wiki makes it sound a lot like Z for Zachariah

Posted by: Anonymous | January 14, 2010 01:08:06 pm | permalink

great source material. fun to see the apocalypse through the eyes of a child. hopefully it's better than the last few entries into the post-apoc genre...the road and book of eli...meh

Posted by: Ricky Chips | January 14, 2010 02:04:59 pm | permalink

Big fan of Mr Howe, great book, can't wait!

Posted by: Davros | January 14, 2010 03:13:35 pm | permalink

I am looking forward to this immensely. The concept art gives me tingles. I can only imagine what the finished film will be like. A unique take on a fascinating subject!!

Posted by: M.Sandoval | January 14, 2010 03:45:45 pm | permalink

Lucas Howe is fantastic and this sounds extremely exciting. Can't wait!

Posted by: Bunder | January 15, 2010 04:04:26 am | permalink

Lucas is a wonderful director. This is gonna be great!!

Posted by: tim | January 15, 2010 12:59:21 pm | permalink

This looks awesome. I've been following Howes projects for years and am excited to see this one.

Posted by: mike | January 19, 2010 09:22:40 am | permalink

have not heard of the director but I adore the book. I grew up with The Tripods books and have been anxiously awaiting the films. Empty World is in my top 10 books of alltimes. It is really quite different from Z for Zachariah. There was a German movie version years ago that I got off ebay back in the days! This book is really special and deserves special treatment. I like that this fellow plans to stick with Christopher's vision. Who the heck is The Taxman? Not in the book...

Posted by: Amy | January 26, 2010 05:55:29 am | permalink

just read the book and their isn't any character called the taxman but looks cool anyways

Posted by: fyteclub | January 30, 2010 07:45:11 pm | permalink

user icon @fyteclub

You're right, there isn't. Howe has told us that some of the details and characters have changed, but I didn't mention it here because he is giving us more details later. Good eyes though.

Posted by: agentorange | January 31, 2010 01:36:22 pm | permalink

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