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The Hollywood Reporter has a feature on European comic book characters who would be ripe for a filmic adaptation (or reboot).
And I, personally, would dearly LOVE to see a Corto Maltese movie! He's sooooo cool.
And I, personally, would dearly LOVE to see a Corto Maltese movie! He's sooooo cool.
Corto Maltese — Italy
Why the character of Corto Maltese hasn’t been turned into a lavish film franchise in the U.S. remains a mystery. A six-episode series with Frank Miller writing and executive producing was announced in late 2022, but it remains to be seen if the team can get the elusive charm of its hero right. Think of Corto as a soft-spoken, perpetually nostalgic version of Indiana Jones, whose adventures take him from the Caribbean and Siberia to Venice and the Greek islands between 1905 and 1925. Corto was the fictional alter ego of its creator, Italian artist and globe wanderer Hugo Pratt, whose elegant drawings and watercolor work are dreamy and evocative. So unforgettable are the female characters in Corto — brilliant, defiant, stubbornly independent — that they inspired an entire book devoted to them, The Women of Corto Maltese.
Why the character of Corto Maltese hasn’t been turned into a lavish film franchise in the U.S. remains a mystery. A six-episode series with Frank Miller writing and executive producing was announced in late 2022, but it remains to be seen if the team can get the elusive charm of its hero right. Think of Corto as a soft-spoken, perpetually nostalgic version of Indiana Jones, whose adventures take him from the Caribbean and Siberia to Venice and the Greek islands between 1905 and 1925. Corto was the fictional alter ego of its creator, Italian artist and globe wanderer Hugo Pratt, whose elegant drawings and watercolor work are dreamy and evocative. So unforgettable are the female characters in Corto — brilliant, defiant, stubbornly independent — that they inspired an entire book devoted to them, The Women of Corto Maltese.