Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow, I,Robot, Knowing) will adapt Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s illustrated novel, Joe Golem And The Drowning City.
“The title is a supernatural-steampunk illustrated novel that
follows an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic
scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe
Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as
they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan. In
this vision, lower Manhattan sank into the water during a catastrophic
earthquake in 1925, leaving those unwilling or unable to abandon it to
make a new life in streets turned to canals.”
Mignola is the creator of Hellboy and Golden is the award winning author of dozens of books including the Of Saints and Shadows series. The duo have previously collaborated on several comics and the illustrated novel, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.
