You may soon get to see — and smell! — Joan Peterson dying over and over again in 4D, as Tom King and Elsa Charretier’s Love Everlasting is getting adapted for a feature film by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Nominated for both the Eisner and Harvey Awards, the movie will be directed by Room director Lenny Abrahamson, with Jane Goldman attached to write the script. The movie will be produced by Emma Watts and Ed Guiney.
In Love Everlasting, Joan Peterson discovers she’s trapped in some sort of strange romance comics cycle. Every time she falls in love, she’s murdered by a masked cowboy and sent to the next trope-filled comic book scenario. As she continues she becomes more self-aware of her situation, with many mind-bending revelations to come. Per a press release from Image Comics, “Her bloody journey to freedom and revelation is both breathtaking and groundbreaking.”
What I personally am most interested in finding out about this is how this is adapted into a movie. The comic is so steeped in the history of romance comics, and Charretier leans into the language and cadence of those books… How will it work on screen? Will it be a too-faithful adaptation that ultimately misses the point of the source material, like Watchmen? Or will Abrahamson and Goldman lean into the movie format to give us movie romance tropes, instead of comic book ones? And one last question: Love Everlasting isn’t done, so will this tell the “whole” story of the book?
We’ll find out soon enough as the series heads to the big screen. Really looking forward to getting sprayed in the face with cowboy-scented mist!
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