With Hollywood hitting up comic books for blockbusters, a new comics publisher is looking to India for ideas.
"The world is increasingly realizing that India is a source for creativity and great ideas, not just a back office to execute them more cheaply," said Gotham Chopra, part of the management team at Los Angeles-based Liquid Comics.
One of the first projects for the publisher will be bringing its Ramayan 3392 AD — a colorful, 21st-century re-imagining of Indian literary epic the Ramayana — to movie theaters. Liquid has teamed up with Mandalay Pictures and 300 producer Mark Canton for the film, which has a planned release date of 2011.
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Now I'm not sure if I should be offended or flattered, but it looks awfully cool. In fact, I've never read the Ramayana before, and I'm not terribly sure how much of a source document on Hinduism it is. The good news is: putting things in movie or comic book form makes it much more palatable for my low low attention span.
That's why I have my Manga Bible
