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The Incomparable Mothership

363: From Cold City to Atomic Blonde

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

“Atomic Blonde,” a major motion picture opening this summer, started its life as a graphic novel written by Antony Johnston. In this special episode, Jason and Antony discuss the origin of the graphic novel “The Coldest City”, why some stories fit better as graphic novels rather than serialized comics, the value of taking some time to indulge passion projects, the process of having Hollywood option your story, and the choices made when adapting a story from one medium into another. (This episode contains no spoilers for “Atomic Blonde” or “The Coldest City”, so listen without fear.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.7

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0:15.0

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0:22.7

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0:28.4

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0:36.1

The incomparable.

0:38.5

Number 363, July 2017.

0:44.0

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

0:46.1

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

0:47.1

This is another one of those bonus episodes where we get to talk with somebody who is a recurring

0:52.3

incomparable panelist, and in this case,

0:55.0

hosts his own show in the incomparable network, about something that they made that is in the world or about to be in the world.

1:03.0

And we think it's fun to talk about this stuff with a minimum. We're not going to spoil it. We want to get you excited and interested about the process of creating something and having it come out into the world, joining me to talk about his

1:16.5

graphic novel, The Coldest City, which in turn has become a major motion picture, Atomic Blonde,

1:23.9

in theaters soon, very soon. It's Anthony Johnston. Hello. Hello. The Atomic Blonde in theaters soon, very soon. It's Anthony Johnston. Hello.

1:28.6

Hello.

1:29.5

The Atomic Blonde film, I should say, for those who care, July 28th, you should all care. July 28th in every theater everywhere.

1:39.8

In the U.S. In the UK and Europe, it's August 11th.

1:43.2

Okay. Well, we'll be sure because we're horrible

1:46.0

Americans. We will release this in time for all of America to see Atomic Blonde and wet the

1:50.6

appetites of those in Europe and elsewhere who must wait until the dog days of August to see it.

1:57.1

Boy, we got one early this time. Usually, these international rollouts start

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