| Alexis Nolent | |
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 Nolent in 2024 | |
| Born | Rouen, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | Matz |
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| Awards | Prix Saint-Michel: Best Story (2004) Best French Language Comic (2006) |
Alexis Nolent (a.k.a. Matz) is a French writer. He writes scripts for video games and has also written a novel and, under the pen name Matz, a number of comics.
Nolent was born in Rouen, France, and grew up in the Caribbean, before moving to Paris. [1]
His graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete, AKA Headshot , was adapted into the 2012 film Bullet to the Head . [2] He has written The Killer (Le Tueur) and Cyclops (Cyclopes) both of which have been optioned for films, also by producer Alexandra Milchan, the former at Paramount with director David Fincher [3] and the latter at Warner Brothers by James Mangold. [4] The Killer is his first to be published in English and is published by Archaia Studios Press, [5] who are dividing each of volumes into two parts and releasing in American comic book format bi-monthly. The first four issues were collected as a hardcover volume, which won IGN's Best Indy Book of 2007 Award, [6] Newsarama's Best of '07 gave it the "Best Comic You Didn't Read This Year" award [7] and Entertainment Weekly named it #2 in a list of Best comics of 2007. [8]
Other work includes Headshot (Du plomb dans la tête) with Colin Wilson, Shandy with Dominique Bertail and an upcoming adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel Savage Night with artist Miles Hyman. [9] [10]
The Killer was optioned for a 2023 feature film adaptation, starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton. [11]
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