FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE October 05, 2014
Media contact:
Michael Hudson media@ravensheadpress.com
Raven’s
Head Press gets
a slice of Italy
License
with famed screenwriter, director
Ernesto
Gastaldi
Raven’s Head Press, a boutique publisher of
out of print pulp and paperback originals announces an agreement with Ernesto
Gastaldi, a legendary Italian author, screenwriter and director. The agreement will
authorize Raven’s Head Press and its parent company, Sequential Pulp Comics, to
translate and adapt Gastaldi’s extensive body of work into English language
prose and graphic novels.
Raven’s
Head Press’ publisher, Michael Hudson, says, “The opportunity to work with a
living legend is nothing less than thrilling. When I think of the Italian
cinema that I’ve grown up with in various genres from peplum to horror to
spaghetti western to giallo, the name of Ernesto Gastaldi stands tall. He
innovated where others could only follow.”
Gastaldi
has written more than 100 films, starring some the greatest actors in the world
including Sophia Loren, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Telly Savalas,
Carroll Baker, Barbara Steele, Jack Palance, James Mason, Steve McQueen, Van
Johnson, Lee VanCleef, James Coburn, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Robert DeNiro and
many others.
His scripts have been directed and produced by
well-known directors such as Sergio Leone, Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, Lucio
Fulci, and Sergio Leone among many others. Gastaldi ahs also directed six films
including one of the first and greatest giallo films of all time, Libido in 1965 starring his wife, Mara
Maryl.
His films have achieved cult status worldwide.
Among some of the best-known titles The
Whip and the Body, Days of Wrath, My Name is Nobody, The Grand Duel, The Case
of the Bloody Iris, and Once Upon a Time in America.
The
first release will be Blood In My Pocket,
an intense crime revenge novel set in 1950’s Hollywood. Licensed cover art will be by the great
Robert Maguire. This will be followed by
the western, My Name is Nobody.
For
more information on this soon to be released title in print, and various
digital formats, as well as more information on Ernesto Gastaldi please visit
the Raven’s Press website or blog. Or contact us at media@ravensheadpress.com
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