Film Adaptations
Several attempts have been made to make films of The Yellow "M", though none have been successful.
Jean Van Hamme, a writer who has written additional "Blake and Mortimer" adventures, tells of how movie producer Irene Silberman, wife of Serge Silberman, actually filmed a scene for a potential movie which lasted three minutes. Jacobs was present at the screening of this trial and Van Hamme, who was also there, tells of his enthusiasm for the project. However the film never got off the ground and Silberman lost the movie rights to the story.
Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia has announced that he is working on an adaptation of the comic to be released around 2010. It has been said that Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland will be Blake and Mortimer.
The story was turned into an animated cartoon as part of the Blake and Mortimer TV series made in the late 1990s.
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