Graphic Novel The Underwater Welder Being Adapted by Ryan Gosling, Waypoint, and Anonymous Content
A new comic-to-screen adaptation is heading our way based on the popular Top Shelf/IDW graphic novel The Underwater Welder. We have the early details for you here, and one of the parties involved is a very familiar name!
From the Press Release:
The Underwater Welder is the mind-bending graphic novel written by critically acclaimed, award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire and published by Top Shelf/IDW, which has been optioned for a feature film.
Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao’s Waypoint, and Anonymous Content will produce the film. Lemire, Chris Staros (Editor–in–Chief, Top Shelf), and Ted Adams (CEO and Publisher, IDW Publishing) are attached as executive producers.
The New York Times bestselling graphic novel details a man in the dangerous profession of underwater welding, who has a supernatural encounter at the bottom of the sea.
The deal was brokered on Jeff Lemire’s behalf by Angela Cheng Caplan of the Cheng Caplan Company, Inc., and Allison Binder, Esq., of Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher, LLP, and on Top Shelf/IDW’s behalf by Tuvyah Aronoff of Schwell Wimpfheimer & Associates.
Graphic Novel Synopsis:
Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever!
Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, The Underwater Welder explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and the treasures we all bury deep down inside.
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