By Italy’s Rainbow Group is planning a live-action high seas adventure TV series adaptation of Hugo Pratt’s famed “Corto Maltese” graphic novels.
The title character is a chain-smoking, enigmatic and swashbuckling sea captain from Malta – the son of a British sailor and Spanish gypsy – whose adventures span the earliest decades of the 20th century.
As a child he discovered that he had no fate line on his palm and carved his own with his father’s razor. He supports the disadvantaged and oppressed and is sceptical of anyone with hardline national, ideological or religious assertions.
His adventures take him around the world, and he befriends people from all walks of life, crossing paths with famous figures from the Red Baron to Butch Cassidy and multiple authors including Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Joseph Conrad.
The long-running historical adventure strip that ran in a number of European publications from 1967-1989. The books have sold over 11 million copies worldwide, and are translated and distributed in 35 countries, and are highly praised as some of the most artistic and literary graphic novels ever written.
Rainbow is teaming with Cong SA on the series which is currently in development. Rainbow also will manage the “Corto Maltese” licensing rights worldwide.
Frank Miller was linked to a TV series version back in 2022 but that version never got off the ground. Rainbow is doing a whole new version.
Source: Variety
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