The New York Times Bestseller from Top
Shelf/IDW has been Optioned for a Feature Film
THE UNDERWATER WELDER, is the mind–bending graphic novel written
by critically acclaimed, award–winning cartoonist, Jeff Lemire, and published by Top Shelf/IDW.
Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao and Anonymous Content will produce the film.
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.
Jeff Lemire, Chris Staros
(Editor–in–Chief, Top Shelf), and Ted
Adams (CEO and Publisher, IDW Publishing) are attached as executive
producers.
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.
About IDW
IDW
Media Holdings, Inc. (OCTQX: IDWM) is a fully integrated media company, which
includes publishing, games, entertainment, and the San Diego Comic Art Gallery.
IDW
Publishing’s comic book and graphic novel catalog includes some of the world’s
most popular entertainment brands, including Transformers, My Little
Pony, Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters,
and Disney’s classic characters. At IDW’s core is its commitment to
creator-owned comics including 30 Days of Night, Locke & Key,
Wormwood, Ragnarök, V-Wars, and Archangel by
bestselling sci-fi author William Gibson.
IDW
Publishing is also home to the acclaimed and award-winning imprints; Top Shelf,
The Library of American Comics, Yoe! Books, and Artist Editions,
showcasing the greatest original art ever published in American comic books.
IDW
Entertainment serves as the worldwide distributor of Wynonna Earp airing
on the Syfy Channel in the U.S. and is producing BBC America’s Dirk Gently,
based the best seller by Douglas Adams starring Elijah Wood and Sam Barnett.
About Waypoint Entertainment
Waypoint
Entertainment is a film and television development, production, and finance
company with a slate that includes: Scott Cooper’s Hostiles starring Christian
Bale and Rosamund Pike; Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider starring Jared Leto;
Shane Black’s detective thriller The Nice Guys starring Russell Crowe and Ryan
Gosling; Woody Harrelson’s Lost in London starring Harrelson, Owen Wilson, and
Willie Nelson; and Terrence Malick's Song to Song starring Ryan Gosling Michael
Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara.
About Anonymous Content
Founded in 1999 by Managing Partner Steve Golin, Anonymous Content
is a leading management and Film, TV and Commercial production company..
Anonymous Content’s clients have been recognized with Academy Awards®, Emmys®,
Golden Globes®, Tony Awards®, Pulitzer Prizes® and other prestigious awards.
The company’s award-winning Film & TV division boasts many commercially
successful and critically-acclaimed works, including BABEL,
WINTER’S BONE, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, 50
FIRST DATES, , THE REVENANT and Best Picture Academy Award winning
SPOTLIGHT. The company’s TV slate includes “True Detective” (HBO), “The
Knick” (Cinemax), “Mr. Robot” (USA Network), “and “Berlin Station” (EPIX),
as well as upcoming titles “13 Reasons Why” (Netflix), “The Alienist” (TNT),
and “Maniac” (Netflix). Through its Commercial work, Anonymous Content is
also the driving creative force behind countless top brands, including Prada,
Nike and Coke. In 2016, Anonymous Content
received a substantial minority investment from Emerson Collective, the
organization founded and run by Laurene Powell Jobs, to allow the firm to expand its production
offerings in socially-relevant content aimed at inspiring change.
