"Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn't be out of place in a Von Trier film."-Publishers Weekly "starred review" "A tight, taut tale."- "Forbidden Planet International blog review" It was just a beautiful thing, and kind of touching, that it came from my daughters, this story about getting older very, very quick."-M. I thought it was very frightening and emotional, and the ideas just started coming, and I tracked down the owner, and the person that wrote it. "I read it, and the premise was so powerful, of these people that went to this beach and their experience that happens on that day in the beach. "It's based on this graphic novel that I was given from my daughters," he said.
From the moment I read this I was changed." -M. Its themes of aging had me thinking about my parents and children and how quickly it all goes by. It is a profound mystery, sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. As is frequently the case with French-produced bandes dessinées, "Sandcastle" is a stark existentialist parable." -New York Times- "New York Times" ( 12:00:00 AM)
"Shyamalan adapted his disquieting tale from the graphic novel "Sandcastle," by the French writer Pierre Oscar Lévy and the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters. As is frequently the case with French-produced bandes dessinées, "Sandcastle" is a stark existentialist parable." -New York Times Weighty stuff, expertly told." -The Comics Bulletin "Shyamalan adapted his disquieting tale from the graphic novel "Sandcastle," by the French writer Pierre Oscar Lévy and the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters. Night Shyamalan "Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn't be out of place in a Von Trier film." - Publishers Weekly, starred review " Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down." "Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition.
From the moment I read this I was changed." - M. Praise for Sandcastle: " Sandcastle truly inspired my film Old. Levy's dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters's sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn't seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water.
Sandcastle graphic novel movie#
The movie is scheduled to be released July 23, 2021. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. A woman's body is found floating in the waters, which brings these thirteen strangers together to try and unravel the riddle of the sands and escape the beach alive in this tense, fantastical mystery" - from publisher's web site.īook Synopsis The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M. The beach is sheltered from prying eyes by green-fringed cliffs that soar around the cove. Its fine white sand is fringed with rock pools filled with crystal clear water. Amongst their number, a family, a young couple, a refugee and some American tourists. About the Book "Early morning on a perfect summer's day, people begin to descend on an idyllic, secluded beach.
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