The current issue of Film Stories magazine, Issue 11, on sale now in WHSmith and other UK high street retailers, includes a huge feature on all the 2000AD movies that never were.
The magazine tracked down the films based on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic that didn’t make it to the screen – and why.
If you’ve missed out on the Issue, the bad news is that the publisher has sold out, but if you pre-order Issue 12 here – shipping the end of next week – they’ll throw in a free digital edition of issue 11 too.
“A Christmas gift for film lovers, that also helps us offer even more opportunities to writers and indie filmmakers,” say the team.
Film Stories launched back in 2018 and since then, the title, which also has its own podcast, has published hundreds of pages, given breaks to loads of new writers, and talked about all sorts of films, big and small. The title has also showcased a whole bunch of primarily British films on its covers, that weren’t getting covers anywhere else.
Issue 11 also includes: the story of Last Christmas, how the film came together quickly, its test screenings, and the other thus-far unpublished George Michael songs; the cinema of David Essex: a celebration; when movie stars come to Britain for pantomime; the great space race: the movie production studios cropping up around the UK (that aren’t in London); the life and times of dogs in the movies; the film school hiding in your DVD collection; what’s happened to all the DVD shops?; and much, much more.
Also published is Film Stories Junior, currently four times a year, probably the world’s first print film magazine that’s not just aimed at under 15s, but it’s mainly written by them too.
• For subscriptions to both Film Stories and Film Stories Junior magazines, details are right here
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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