Those names are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. These comics cover a range of subjects: a vigilante in New York being hounded by a demon, a seedy crime world that no one seems to inhabit by choice, gritty superheroes, the underbelly of old Hollywood… But there are two names that tie all of these stories together. Volumes of Kill or be Killed, Criminal, Sleeper, and The Fade Out. Night Fever arrives June 20, and The Hollywood Reporter has a first look at the series below, what Brubaker describes as a trailer (in the form of comic book panels).Next to me, I have a stack of comics that’s about a foot high. “I really wanted to do something a bit weirder and less grounded,” says Brubaker, while Phillips, who is British, was excited to do something not set in the United States. The duo isn’t worrying about specifics so much. Night Fever, meanwhile, is set it in an unnamed European city. That series is grounded in reality and history, with the duo researching historical photos of Los Angeles to get the tiniest of details right. Night Fever is a change of pace for Brubaker and Phillips, who have spent a good portion of the pandemic era on Reckless, a pulpy detective series that now spans five graphic novels.
I was like, ‘Who do I know that’s like that?’” says Brubaker with a laugh, noting that he learned a lot about filmmaking and screenwriting from the Drive filmmaker.
“It’s a character who likes to give big speeches and big definitive statements about life. Brubaker realized this character had qualities reminiscent the Danish filmmaker, so he decided to infuse him with some of Refn. Ed Brubaker and His 'Reckless' Journey: Winter Soldier Co-Creator Talks Pulp Heroes and His Marvel YearsĪlong the way, our protagonist meets what Brubaker describes as a “trickster character,” and that’s where Refn comes into play.īrubaker spent four years working with Refn, developing a film that never got off the ground, as well as working on Too Old to Die Young, the 2019 miniseries co-starring Miles Teller.
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