Another long-gestating comic book project appears to be gaining some momentum as Producer David Heyman (Harry Potter) revealed that Jane Goldman was working on a new adaptation of Bill Willingham’s Fables comic book series with Danish director Nik Arcel (A Royal Affair) set to helm the project.  Goldman has plenty of experience with comic book adaptations, she wrote (with Matthew Vaughn) the screenplays for Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, and also adapted Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ The Secret Service, which is set to open here on Valentine’s Day weekend.

Fables, which debuted from Vertigo in 2002, has been in development for quite some time.  Back in 2008, a Fables TV series actually reached the pilot stage (see "'Fables' Pilot"), but went no further--and given the subsequent sucess of lesser properties with similar plotlines like Once Upon a Time and Grimm, the folks at ABC missed a golden opportunity with Fables.   Heyman has been working on Fables since mid-2013 (see "'Fables' in Development"), which demonstrates how much time it can take to bring a project to either the big or the small screen.

Heyman revealed Goldman’s participation in the Fables project in an interview with Comic Book Resources.  When asked about the progress of the Fables adaptation, he replied: "Jane Goldman is working on a draft as we speak.  Nik Arcel is attached (to direct).  He did a draft, and now he’s supervising Jane, who’s doing a draft.  Hoping that it’ll come in and we’ll be able to move to the next stage.  All these things always take longer than you want.  And Fables is not easy (to adapt), by any means, but I think it’ll be pretty great."