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Ben Kingsley is set to lead the cast in an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Violent Cases from Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton.Pictures, and the team on The Girl With All the Gifts.

Writer Mike Carey is reteaming with director Colm McCarthy for the story about a journey into the mind of a writer.

“I’m delighted to be working with this fantastic team on Violent Cases, which for me is about the power and importance of storytelling, about how we negotiate the shadows cast by the father figures in our lives and above all about the right of our inner child to be heard,” Kingsley said, with Carey adding, “As an aspiring writer back in the late ’80s reading Violent Cases was a revelation and a joy for me. Its darkness and playfulness defined a new approach to storytelling. Thirty-five years on, it’s still unique, and bringing it across into a new medium feels like discovering it again for the first time. Neil Gaiman redefined serialized comics with The Sandman, but Violent Cases was his and Dave McKean’s early masterpiece. It’s thrilling to be introducing it to a new audience, and taking its visual lyricism into a new medium.”