Dylan Dog: Beloved Italian comic gets a Austrian produced new series
Round these parts we’re huge fans of Austrian director Kevin Kopacka`s short films Hades and TLMEA : aesthetically simple, borderline experimental works of art masquerading as horror films. The man knows how to build suspense and paint an alluring abstract world with very little money and sparse resources and we have been waiting to see what the man would do next. Now we know…
Kopacka and his partner Alex Bakshaev have now finished production on the pilot of Dylan, their new proposed – and proudly unauthorized – series inspired by Tiziano Sclavi’s cult Italian horror/noir comic Dylan Dog. That long running book was adapted as the authorized 2011 film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night a film that seemingly missed the point and allure of the comic book. Sclavi also wrote the Italian meta-zombie film Dellamorte Dellamore aka Cemetery Man and the lead actor, Rupert Everett was the inspiration behind the character Dylan Dog, after cover artist Claudio Villa saw him in the 1984 thriller Another Country. In some ways, Dellamorte Dellamore is a sort of unofficial entry in the Dylan Dog universe.
Dylan Dog is a “Nightmare Investigator” who, together with his unique assistant, solves cases dealing with the unknown and the paranormal, often involving bloodshed and surreal dream worlds. Kopacka is a huge fan of the comics but due to copyright reasons, his series Dylan had to change the name of the characters, though the essence of the comics is kept alive as much as possible.
The 30 minute pilot titled “Dream of the Living Dead” directed by Kopacka, is now done and we have your exclusive first look at the show in its entirety!
The pilot stars Ford Everett as Dylan, Denise Ankel as Morgana and Fassbinder legend Harry Baer as Inspektor Mahlow. To learn more about the series’ progress visit the official Dylan Facebook page.
Now, set aside half an hour and watch the pilot episode below!