Wheeler wrote and Miller illustrated the book was published last fall, by which time Netflix had already picked it up. “I certainly had a fan’s desire to see what Frank would do with his aesthetic and storytelling in that world.” “It seemed an amazing playground,” Wheeler said.
Their persecutors are the Red Paladins, a violent and intolerant religious sect with an uncomfortably familiar contempt for the “other.” In it, the young Lady, Nimue, is being hunted along with her fellow fairies - “fae,” in “Cursed” parlance. So they decided to create one of their own, a prequel of sorts with a distinctly modern approach, set before Arthur is king. “I tend to love all the incarnations, as wildly different as they are.” “I’d been enraptured with the King Arthur story since I was a boy, when I saw Disney’s ‘Sword in the Stone,’” Miller said in a three-way Zoom interview with Wheeler this month. Miller, a beloved graphic-novel and comic-book artist, had already had his work translated many times to the screen: “Daredevil,” “The Dark Knight Returns” and “300,” as well as “Sin City,” the movie versions of which he also helped direct.īut Miller had never tackled Arthur, and he was excited to discover in Wheeler a common love of the medieval legends. Wheeler, a writer and producer perhaps best known for the “Puss in Boots” (2011) screenplay, was a self-described “lifelong Frank Miller fan” when the two were introduced several years ago. When the show premieres Friday, it will be the latest stage in a kind of evolving dream project for Miller and Wheeler, which started with their collaboration on the 2019 illustrated young-adult novel on which it is based. That’s the magic Netflix is hoping to pull from “Cursed,” a live-action fantasy series created by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler that puts the young Lady of the Lake at the center of Arthurian myth.
In a post-“Game of Thrones” world, every programmer’s dream is finding the next big spectacle series - and in the age of Covid, a new binge-worthy show is worth its weight in mystical swords. Imagine a version in which Merlin is a heavy drinker who has lost his magic Arthur is a scrounging but ambitious nobody with questionable scruples and the Lady of the Lake is a teenage fairy with powers she can’t control and isn’t sure she wants. Merlin, King Arthur, the Lady of the Lake.
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