The Verge
David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth is becoming a new graphic novel
Dev Pramanik/Titan Comics
Though director Nicolas Roeg’s _The Man Who Fell to Earth_from 1976 was itself an adaptation of Walter Tevis’ sci-fi novel of the same name, David Bowie’s performance in the cinematic adaptation has become so iconic that Titan Comics plans to lead with it in its upcoming graphic novelization from writer Dan Watters and artist Dev Pramanik.
Like the film before it, Titan’s _The Man Who Fell to Earth_will tell the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien with Bowie’s signature heterochromatic eyes who comes to Earth on a desperate mission in search of water that his home planet desperately needs. In a press release about the new book, Watters reflected on how the original story was always a rumination on humanity’s relationship with...