By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 4/1/2009
This week in Page to Screen--PW's weekly column tracking film rights circulating and sold in Hollywood--a story about a boy and his dog against the world, and a Flash Gordon-esque graphic novel series.Read the full article HERE.
Brendan Deneen, newly of FinePrint Literary Management, is shopping film rights to an original graphic novel series by Jay Piscopo called Capt'n Eli! Deneen doesn't rep for print, and Nemo Publishing has already released the first two volumes in the series; The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli Volume 1 was published in July 2008. Nemo described Capt'n Eli!, about a boy's undersea adventures, as a combination of iconic brands—Flash Gordon meets Buck Rogers. Deneen, who's taking the series to studios and production companies, concurred on the classics front, and said it's "part Batman and part Johnny Quest."
