Passmore and Fabrizio are repped by CAA, Aperture Entertainment and Eclipse Law. On top of San Andreas, the duo worked on Astro Boy, set up at Warner Bros., and worked on 2012’s Red Dawn remake that starred Chris Hemsworth. Hellfighters marks a decisive move into television by Passmore and Fabrizio, who are known for their movie work. Brilliantly dramatized by Max Brooks-author of such national bestsellers as 'World War Z. Brooks was attached to pen the script at the time. The Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University ''The Harlem Hellfighters 'is perhaps the first graphic novel taking as its theme a major episode in African American History, the heroic performance of black men in combat during World War I. Fabrizio and Passmore will also executive produce.īefore going to the TV route, Hellfighters was set up as a movie at Sony Pictures, which picked up the rights in 2014. Will Smith, James Lassiter and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Overbrook production banner is executive producing with Brooks and Immersive’s Josh Bratman. The unit would eventually be awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for their distinction in battle in liberating France from the Germans.
You can also read my fiction over on Amazon.What changed for the men of Harlem was being assigned to a French command whereupon the Hellfighters first experienced something unknown to them in America at that time - racial equality. And take a look at my Patreon page, where I’m working on a novel and developing a tabletop RPG setting. Check out my Facebook, Twitter, or Goodreads. If you like what I do, you can buy me a coffee. Here’s hoping that changes, as it’s a heck of a story and one that should be more well known. It came about because Brooks (and others, apparently) couldn’t get the money to make a film version. There were more than a few times where I had a hard time figuring out just what was happening as my eye couldn’t focus. If it had color or perhaps a more nuanced grayscale, I think it could have been greatly improved. This is made a bit worse by the comic being in black & white. The book focuses on the first African-American infantry unit to fight in World War I. Sometimes it looks great while at others it seems too busy. Its a graphic novel that tells a story from a real World War, the first one.
I’m not in love with Caanan White’s art style. From training with broomsticks to facing home-mandated segregation even in war-torn Europe, they fought on all sides. While the main cast of characters are fictional, they do interact with historic figures and the things they go through are based on real challenges faced by the men of the 369th. Brooks teams with artist Caanan White to tell the story of the 369th Infantry Regiment, an African American unit that saw some really horrible stuff in a really horrible war.įacing racism at home, these men still took up arms to fight for the nation that sadly didn’t fight for them. I have to admit, I was not expecting Max Brooks’s follow up to World War Z to be a historical fiction graphic novel about World War I, but here we are.
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