Robert Rodriguez And Jessica Alba Teaming Up For French Comic Book Adaptation Insiders?
By Brendon Connelly/June 19, 2009 12:30 pm EST
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Insiders is a spy thriller in several volumes, reportedly revolving around the female lead Najah Cruz and I’m assuming that Alba has her eye on this vaguely Dark Angel-ish role as well as the Executive Producer’s seat. In the series, Cruz is a Columbian working for the White House, tasked to infiltrate and bring down a global crime syndicate.
Judging from the titles of the seven volumes of Insiders already issued, there’s a whole lot of globetrotting going on: Chechnya, Afghanistan, the Kremlin, some Gulag or another, Peking. And I think that’s in series order.
The strip was created by Jean-Claude Bartoll, previously an investigative journalist and also the author of the Terrorist and Mekong comics, and illustrated by Renaud Garreta.
If I were Alba and I was looking to get a movie of this series made I’d very probably turn to Rodriguez too. She witnessed his comics-adaptation skills first hand with her role in Sin City, which I’m sure was very compelling evidence.
Here’s the back cover of the first volume, and below that a really bad translation of what it says down the side:
