GLEN HEAD, NY (September 5, 2013) Following the success of his critically acclaimed werewolf spaghetti-western, Harbor Moon, graphic novel creator, Ryan Colucci, proudly announces the completion of R.E.M., a mind-bending thriller written/created by Colucci and beautifully illustrated by Zsombor Huska.
The team behind R.E.M. launched its Kickstarter campaign just 2 weeks ago to bring the striking black and white hardcover to print, and has currently exceeded its stated goal of $7,000 toward their overall goal of $20,000 to help cover the total cost of the book.
R.E.M., a 176 page work about a brilliant but paranoid neuroscientist who opens Pandora’s box with the invention of a new sleep technology, is the first in a slate of graphic novels by Colucci’s Spoke Lane Entertainment in partnership with Mike The Pike Productions.
A trailer from the book can be viewed on the Kickstarter page and features a brilliant score by Grammy nominated DJ, Dirty South.
R.E.M. Trailer (Graphic Novel) from Ryan Colucci on Vimeo.
About Ryan Colucci:
Ryan is an alumnus of the prestigious Peter Stark Producing MFA Program at USC. He received his BA in Film Studies and Production from Hofstra University, graduating Suma Cum Laude. Before that he pursued a degree in Accounting from Villanova University and spent a year at Cambridge University in England studying Economics and Terrorism. He is a member of the Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honor Society as well as the Gamma Phi Business Honor Society.
He has over ten years of experience in the film industry, having worked in development for Artisan/Lionsgate (Blair Witch Project, The Punisher) and Disney (Pirates of the Caribbean, Freaky Friday). In the summer of 2011 he produced the sci-fi thriller White Space starring Holt McCallany, which is currently in post-production. Ryan also worked at Snoot Entertainment, where he was a producer on the CG-animated feature Battle for Terra 3D, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and was released through Lionsgate nationwide in May of 2009.
Ryan Colucci is teaming up with Warner Brothers Pictures to produce Terry Brooks’ Shannara fantasy series (fifteen books in total). Terry is the fourth best-selling fantasy author of all time, behind only JR Tolkien, JK Rawlings and CS Lewis. Along with Mike the Pike Productions, he is also producing George R.R. Martin’s World Sci-Fi Award Winning The Skin Trade, a horror novella by the acclaimed NY Times #1 best-selling author from an anthology of the same name, also featuring stories by Stephen King and Dan Simmons.
