Keanu Reeves & China Miéville have written a novel called The Book of Elsewhere, centered on an 80,000-year-old warrior who cannot die.
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Is this the novel based on his BRZRKR comics? Oh it is! They are beyond batshit crazy. Utterly insane hyper-violent nonsense of the highest order.
Apparently there's also a live-action film and an animated Netflix series coming.
I'm surprised that existing Mieville works haven't been plundered for the screen, aside from the IMHO lacklustre TV adaptation of The City and the City.
I remember a book-reading he gave for The Scar some 20-odd years ago where he expressed with some enthusiasm his hope of seeing his monsters up on the screen.
Love this book cover. Does anyone know what the typeface is?
The font seems to be Geometric 231 Heavy.
I recently learned that you can look up/Google fonts by uploading images, using websites like What the Font. It blew my mind, and is pretty helpful for creating text designs on my wife's Cricut machine.
Thank you!!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/20/i-wanted-to-do-pulpy-hyper-violent-action-keanu-reeves-on-his-novel-with-china-mieville-and-the-afterlife-of-the-matrix?CMP=share_btn_url
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