Sony Pictures Is Adapting Image Comics' Hit Graphic Novel Series, "LOVE EVERLASTING"

We feel it’s a misnomer when people say, “Hollywood is out of ideas.” Not only does it deny that many efforts are made to bring original IP to the masses, even if it doesn’t always work, but it also discounts the notion that plenty of stories from other mediums are worthy of adaptation, even if they aren’t “new.” Case in point, “Love Everlasting,” the critically acclaimed graphic novel series from Image Comics, penned by Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (“Batman,” “The Vision,” “Mister Miracle”) and fan-favorite artist Elsa Charretier (“November,” “The Infinite Loop”). The series has received rave reviews, and is now being picked up by Sony Pictures and headed to the big screen!

The “Love Everlasting” comic book series follows main character Joan Peterson who discovers that she is trapped in an endless, terrifying cycle of "romance." A problem to be solved, a man to marry—and every time she falls in love she's torn from her world and thrust into another teary saga. Her bloody journey to freedom and revelation is both breathtaking and groundbreaking.

It’s still early days, and Deadline has more info on who is slated to direct, write, and produce the script. You can see some praise for the series and where to get your copy of the first two volumes, with the third hitting shelves in September, before the film comes out!

“King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Charretier’s (Department of Truth, Vol. 3) gripping mystery subverts the romance-comic genre but still delivers genuine romantic melodrama.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“Charretier’s thick-line cartoony character design, reminiscent of Darwyn Cooke, perfectly depicts this genre crossover, and Matt Hollingsworth’s colors capture the eeriness, avoiding primary colors with suitably subdued secondary palettes for each chapter. This series launch piles on the thrills and leaves tantalizing questions open. Readers will be eager to see the next volume.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The expressive strokes of Charretier’s art here have nostalgic warmth, but they're more connected to the retro-modern cartooning of, say, Batman Adventures than actual art from any of those doe-eyed comics of yesteryear. This feels like then, but it's deeply rooted in now, which makes it the ideal aesthetic for this meta take... King’s interest, as it’s often been, is deconstruction, and the narrative necessarily takes some repetition to achieve it. However, certain chapters function as gripping romances on their own merits, even as they advance toward a conceptual, distressing, but ultimately compelling culmination." ―Booklist

Love Everlasting, Vol. 1 trade paperback is available now at local comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones.

Love Everlasting, Vol. 2 trade paperback is available now at local comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones.

Love Everlasting, Vol. 3 trade paperback will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, September 3, and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, September 16.

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