WrestleZone Radio is proud to present this exclusive look at the newly announced Andre the Giant movie based off of Lion Forge Comic’s Andre The Giant: Closer To Heaven graphic novel.
You can find some transcribed quotes from the Lion Forge Comic’s President Geoff Gerber, about the upcoming film below. You can listen to Geoff’s comments beginning around the seven minute mark in the embedded audio player above.
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On if the plan was always to develop the graphic novel in to a movie:
GG: We always thought there was potential for it but teaming up with Stone Village Productions really gave us the opportunity to talk to Robin about the potential of making of a movie.
On why Stone Village Productions was the best production company to help develop the movie with:
GG: An important part of the graphic novel was to capture that humanity. He is such a larger than life personality and larger than life character. In the ring and outside of the ring there’s certainly larger than life elements but he was an individual. It’s that character and those struggles that he dealt with over the course of his life that make him much more relatable to everybody. Rather than this giant that actually put a distance between himself and the people around him.
This exclusive starts with WrestleZone Radio’s Nick Hausman also chatting with Robin Christensen-Roussimoff about:
- Working with Stone Village Productions to create a live action movie about the life of her father
- What her role as a consultant on the movie entails
- Shaquille O’Neil appearing in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania
- More…
Nick then jumps over to an interview he did with Lion Forge Comic’s President Geoff Gerber and Lion Forge’s Sales Manager Devin Funches. Geoff & Devin chat candidly with Nick about:
- Working with Robin to create the graphic novel Andre The Giant: Closer To Heaven
- Whether or not the intention was to always turn Andre The Giant: Closer To Heaven in to a movie
- Why Stone Village Productions was the right fit to bring the graphic novel to the big screen
- Chavo Gurrero’s upcoming comic book series Warrior’s Creed being developed by Lion Forge
- Working with Chavo to craft a fictional legacy of his family
- Warrior’s Creed being released in English and Spanish
- How Chavo’s comic has ties to Deadpool
- The chances of a Warrior’s Creed becoming a movie
- More…
Nick recently did an interview with Chavo Guerrero Jr. about working with Lion Forge to develop Warrior’s Creed. You can listen to it in the embedded audio player below:
