Bruce Wayne also mentions her pictures from "the Corto Maltese" to Knox and Vale when they talk to him at his benefit party, regarding them as well above Knox's frivolous articles on "the Batman".
Her pictures on the cover and throughout the magazine show a desert war zone strewn with dead bodies and the Joker gives his approval. She shows him an issue of TIME magazine, which the Joker later flips through with Vale in the museum scene.
Similarly, in Tim Burton's original Batman, the character Vicki Vale ( Kim Basinger) tells Alexander Knox ( Robert Wuhl) that she just came back from "the Corto Maltese". The Corto Maltese islands has been occasionally referenced in other DC Comics since. Miller also dedicated the Sin City one-shot Silent Night to the memory of Pratt, who died a few months prior. EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal will back a live-action series adaptation of the Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese graphic novel series, with Sin City ’s Frank Miller to be its creator, writer and executive.
The choice of name is apparently an inside joke as Miller has stated he is a great admirer of Pratt's work. Earlier adaptations include an Italian TV series in the late ’70s, a 2002 French animated feature, and a French animated series that same year.Īs with all newly announced projects, it is unclear when or where the series will air."Corto Maltese" appears in Frank Miller's graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as the name of an island at the centre of an incident not unlike the Cuban missile crisis. Pratt’s original Corto comics published between 19 tell the tale of a dashing and sympathetic, if sometimes self-serving, sea. An adaptation of Corto Maltese in Siberia was in the works in 2019, but was later cancelled. Deadline reports Studiocanal will produce a limited series adaptation of Hugo Pratt‘s Corto Maltese stories with comics legend Frank Miller serving as creator, writer and executive producer. The six-part series is the latest attempt to bring Pratt’s mariner to a larger audience. Others involved in the project include executive producers Jemma Rodgers and Silenn Thomas, VFX guru Phil Tippett, and Studiocanal’s Ron Halpern and Francoise Guyonnet. To me it showed off the power of the comic where language is not much of a barrier … This is the hero’s journey in its most classic form, and I couldn’t be more honored to help bring into this series the romanticism, heroism, and underlying mysticism of Pratt’s creation.” Miller’s affection for the comics led to a Corto namecheck in The Dark Knight Returns, which other writers on DC projects picked up on, leading to James Gunn‘ The Suicide Squad taking place entirely on a fictional island called Corto Maltese. In a statement, Miller said, “Maltese is a rascal who could talk to the Gods.
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