{"id":3154,"date":"2001-03-06T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-06T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/03\/06\/image-to-do-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-comics\/"},"modified":"2001-03-06T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-06T15:27:00","slug":"image-to-do-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/image-to-do-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Image to do Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image Comics publisher Jim Valentino announced that Image has secured the rights from Sony to produce a comic book adaptation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.  Image will be producing 4-5 toys based on the movie timed for release to coincide with the film&#8217;s domestic DVD release in October.  Each of the toys will include a chapter of the comic adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>The comic adaptation will not be a direct adaptation of the movie, &#8220;but it will be very pretty to read&#8230; It will have a lot of sword play and will be very passionate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In what may or may not be a positive, Valentino said that he wasn&#8217;t previously aware that the film was the third part of a trilogy, so if the initial comic series sells well, Image may adapt the other parts of the story.  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually not part of a three volume story but actually part of a 5 volume novel.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicscontinuum.com\/stories\/0103\/05\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Comics Continuum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Comics publisher Jim Valentino announced that Image has secured the rights from Sony to produce a comic book adaptation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Image will be producing 4-5 toys based on the movie timed for release to coincide with the film&#8217;s domestic DVD release in October. Each of the toys will include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}