Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis joins comics world writing eco-horror graphic novel ‘Mother Nature’
Horror star Jamie Lee Curtis has her first Oscar—as well as directing her first movie and writing her first comic book.
Longtime horror movie actress Jamie Lee Curtis has suddenly reached a new level in her career. First, she won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for the Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. The sci-fi/action/comedy/drama stars Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese-American immigrant who must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying everything.
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Winning her first Oscar, Curtis actually went a step further than her movie star parents—Psycho star Janet Leigh and Some Like It Hot actor Tony Curtis—both of whom had been nominated for an Academy Award. In her acceptance speech, Curtis said, “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people,” Curtis said, before listing her coworkers on Everything Everywhere All at Once, adding: “We just won an Oscar.”
Toward the end of her speech, Curtis said, “And my mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. I just won an Oscar.”
As if that were not enough…
Of course, Curtis doesn’t have time to rest with her Academy Award. She has a new movie on the way—her first as a director. Also coming is that movie’s comics adaptation—which she wrote.
Titan Comics will be publishing Mother Nature this summer, adapted from Curtis’ script for the Comet Pictures/Blumhouse film that she is directing. The project is co-written with film-maker Russell Goldman and illustrated by artist Karl Stevens.
About the story:
After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation’s experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the “Mother Nature” project, its clean water.
Haunted by her father’s death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant’s facilities and equipment, until one night she accidentally makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of the “Mother Nature” project and the malevolent, long-dormant horror it has awakened, and that threatens to destroy them all.
“I first thought about this story when I was 19 years old,” Curtis says. “I’ve always been aware of the very unbalanced relationship between humans and nature, and even though I was young, I always knew that, inevitably, nature would win.”
An admirer of Karl Stevens’ work, Curtis is excited he suggested expanding the idea to turn it into a graphic novel.
“I was immediately blown away by the depth of the characters,” says illustrator Stevens. “The perfect blend of action and gore, the urgent ecological message, and how all these things would translate beautifully into a graphic novel—it’s a joy and privilege to work with Titan Comics and Blumhouse on this project. I’m producing the best work of my career!”
Explains Russell Goldman, “We wanted to reach deeper than the big picture doom-and-gloom of climate change narratives to tell a story specific to Four Corners, New Mexico, an amazing part of the world where every major source of energy is mined, and where the climate and resource crises are acutely felt. We wanted to use these themes to shape a story that feels intense, honest and unexpectedly aspirational.”
With the pressing need for stories that shift our collective attention towards our devastating climate emergency, Titan Comics is proud to be publishing the eco-horror graphic novel Mother Nature.
Find the Mother Nature graphic novel at Amazon.
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