Any fan of comic book movies should know the name of screen writer Jane Goldman. She's already proven she's adept at adaptions of comic-book properties, such as Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Service (all with her frequent partner in crime, director Matthew Vaughn), as well as making quite the name outside of the comic book genre by penning Stardust and The Woman in Black. Now, Empire are reporting she has signed on as scribe for the long announced adaption of Vertigo's, DC's mature readers imprint, Fables, which imagines a world where not only are fairy tale characters real, they also live among us, with all their powers intact, in the magically camouflaged New York neighbourhood, Fabletown.
With A Royal Affair's Nikolaj Arcel at the helm, Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect, The Fantastic Four) was originally on board, and it is unknown how much of his script will make it into the final product. Fables has been a long time coming, and hopefully with Goldman on board this will start gaining some traction. Anyone who has read the comic, or even played the videogame A Wolf Among Us, will know there is a wealth of great ideas and characters that warrant a big screen outing.
