Eisner’s Brilliant Graphic Novel Finally Coming to the Screen

Legendary comic book master Will Eisner’s groundbreaking “A Contract With God” is being adapted into a live-action feature film. The book, one of the first graphic novels, was released in hard cover and paperpack by Baronet Books in 1978, and focused on the immigrant struggle in New York City, across four separate but related stories, set primarily in a tenement in the 1930s. The four segments are: “A Contract With God,” “The Street Singer,” “The Super” and “Cookalien.” Four independent directors are attached to direct each of the chapters: Alex Rivera (”Sleep Dealer”); Tze Chun (”Children of Invention”); Barry Jenkins (”Medicine for Melancholy”); and Sean Baker (”Prince of Broadway”). The film will be produced and adapted by Darren Dean, whose first feature, “Prince of Broadway,” about an illegal immigrant in contemporary New York City, is being released this fall.
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