Sony Pictures has officially launched their website for the “30 Days Of Nights” movie! The site features an 18+ trailer and other exclusive content. Check it out!

At last week’s big San Diego Comic Con, Steve announced a new superhero project he has in the works along with Bill Sienkiewicz. CBR has the skinny on “The Sinner.”

Legendary artist Bill Sienkiewicz is re-teaming with Niles on the project, and like Niles, the Eisner award winner also paints heroes with a wide brush.

“This is really what we’ve been leading up to the whole time,” explained Niles. “When I ran into Bill and he said he really wanted to come back to comics in a big way, the first thing we did a commercial product, “30 Days: Beyond Barrow.” It was just perfect timing, him coming along when he did. I needed a great painter to do my new “30 Days” series and here walks up Bill Sienkiewicz. It was pretty much a no-brainer. We did that and we have a story in this “I Am Legend” anthology that’s coming out, which is a book that features stories leading up to the movie.”

“But with ‘The Sinner,’ this is what Bill and I really want to do,” continued Niles. “Bill has so much experience in comics. ‘Moon Knight,’ ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘New Mutants.’ He has done mainstream superheroes for so long and was a big part of the big new wave of change in the industry, which unfortunately led to nowhere as we now have to read comics featuring super heroes renewing their drivers licenses,” he laughed.

Read the entire article here!

One of the panels Steve participated in at Comic Con was a DC hosted event featuring writers who work in more than just the comic book medium. Steve was on the panel, along with Greg Rucka, Mark Verheiden, Paul Dini and more. The panelists were all open and honest about their experiences, and Steve was no different.

Rucka said, “I’ve seen a lot of people say, ‘I’m coming up with this so I can sell it as a movie.’ Often, they don’t. Screen writers are looking at comics as a way to get their creator owned movie made.”

“That’s what I did,” Niles said. “I had a screen play sitting in my drawer that I wanted to see come to life.”

You can read the entire panel coverage here!

Word is out about Steve’s new project with FEARnet.com, a “30 Days of Night” prequel mini series comprised of 7 webisodes that will expand on the original “30 Days” story.

Cut from a miniscule subplot in the original Niles tale and expanded, “Blood Trails,”follows George, a young addict who makes a living seeking covert information for the weary but wise vampire hunter Judith. Ready for change, George plans to score one final job so he can leave town – but finds the road to salvation quickly crumbling when his contacts start turning up dead. Now George must dodge vampires while navigating the harsh underbelly of New Orleans to get his last payday and make it out alive.

Victor Garcia (Return to House on Haunted Hill) will direct, as previously reported, seven 3 - 5 minute episodes based on a script by Ben Ketai. The first chapter airs on FEARnet Thursday, September 13th.

The Comic Book Bin recently interviewed Steve and talked about his start in the comics industry, working in different genres, the various collaborations he’s had with other creators, The Tripper and more!

CBB: Tell us about your start in the industry. You worked at Horror Online prior to working in comics, correct? How did that lead to where you are now?

SN: I got my start pretty early, when I was around 17-18. I was playing in a band at the time and we’d put out our own records and put of shows ourselves, book tours, so when I decided to try doing some comics I started my own publishing company called Arcane Comix. I was a terrible business man, but I managed to put out a few books and set of lithographs (Clive Barker Books of Blood covers) before I folded and used Arcane as a label for packaging books with Eclipse Comics. I did I AM LEGEND there and FRITZ LANG’S M and a tone of Barker material. Horror Online was a brief pit stop between getting fired from Disney and starting to work for McFarlane. How I wound up here is anybody’s guess. I just kept at out of stubbornness and lack of other options as much as anything, but I’m glad I wound up here.

CBB: Were you always interested in writing comics? Was working in comics part of your career plan?

SN: I developed a love of films, comics and music at a really young age and I always wanted to do something either in writing or film. I never thought I’d be in comics. I thought I’d just be a fan and collector who wrote things on the side, but I’m happy to have a career in writing. I’m very lucky.

Read the entire interview here!

D2C Games will be unveiling their digital comics line, D2CComics, at next week’s Comic Con International, including the anticipated digital version of “Strange Cases.”

New Line of Digital Video Comics to Debut at Comic-Con

SAN MATEO, CA - July 17, 2007 - D2C Games, a premier publisher and developer of downloadable interactive entertainment, announced today the creation of a new studio, D2 (squared) Comics. The studio will adapt existing printed comics, transforming them into a new form of digital video comics for the mass market.

The products will offer original musical scores, action directed by the comics’ creators, and behind-the-scenes video and commentary that expands the digital reading experience. The comics will be available for download for Sony PSP(R) (PlayStation(R) Portable), PC, and mobile platforms in fall 2007.

The first product line-up will include notable properties The Cryptics and Strange Cases from famed creator Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, City of Others, Criminal Macabre).

“Our goal is to offer an unmatched level of creative control for the artists and writers behind these works, ” said Ludon Lee, Producer for D2 Comics. “This new form of presentation allows the creators to exert their influence over every nuance of the story, bringing new options to the table for pacing, mood and tone. We will give fans the chance to watch these stories come to life in the way their favorite creative talents truly intend.”

D2 Comics will make its debut at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 26, 2007.

SIMON DARK #1
Written by Steve Niles
Art and cover by Scott Hampton

Gotham City has another guardian, a protector known only in whispers and children’s jump rope songs - and he’s not afraid to get his hands bloody! Meet Simon Dark, the mysterious creature of the night who’s the star of a new ongoing series by the creative team behind the acclaimed GOTHAM COUNTY LINE - writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and artist Scott Hampton (BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES)!
On sale October 10 o 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

DC INFINITE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #1
Written and illustrated by various
Cover by Gene Ha

Don’t miss this collection of 13 stories of tricks and treats by some of comics’ top creators, including writers Steve Niles, Mark Waid, Steve Seagal, Dan DiDio, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Peter Johnson (TV’s Supernatural), David Arquette (Scream), Cliff Dorfman (Entourage) and many more with art by Ian Churchill, Dean Ormston, Dustin Nguyen , Bernard Chang and others! The inmates of Arkham horrify each other with terrifying tales involving Superman and zombies, Batman and vampires, Robin and werewolves, Aquaman and witches, Flash and the dead, and more! Plus, the return of Resurrection Man!
On sale October 31 o 80 pg, FC, $5.99 US

Zap2It.com recently gave a rundown of the new shows the SciFi network announced, including a quick mention of Steve and Thomas Jane’s new project.

Among the other new programs is “The Awesomes,” the animated adventures of has-been superheroes; an untitled miniseries from actor Thomas Jane and comic book author Steve Niles set on an exotic planet; “Going Homer,” a miniseries starring “Farscape’s” Ben Browder as a 21st-century Homer; and a half-hour scripted series based on Francis Stokes’ “God, Inc.” web series. Stokes will also develop an unrelated original one-hour drama about time travel.

Horror website Shock Til You Drop labels Steve the Busiest Man In Comics in this interview. He was also, obviously, the busiest interviewee at the Fangoria con in Jersey!

Shock: Obviously when the comic books came out, they were fairly popular right off the bat.

Niles: You know what was pretty surprising actually. At the time I was working for Todd McFarlane doing “Hellspawn” and “Spawn: The Dark Ages” and my buddy Ted Adams called me and said, “We’re doing some comic but we can’t pay you.” I did the first issue of “30 Days of Night” for free and then it only sold 4,000 copies. Once the first comic hit, that’s when everybody went nuts, so the numbers on #2 and 3 went way up, and then it went into multiple printings and all that stuff. Initially, we were like, “Oh, well, we tried” and then the comic came out and the bidding war started.

Shock: Was the idea for this something you had for a long time before you finally did the comic? How did you hook up with Ben Templesmith?

Niles: Through “Hellspawn.” We both worked at McFarlane and we had this thing where any time we did an issue of “Hellspawn,” we had to wait about a month for Todd to approve it, so we’d be sitting around twiddling our thumbs, and I had this whole pitch list of movies I’d been pitching that never sold. I gave it to Ted Adams and he picked “30 Days of Night,” and since then, literally everything on that list has become either a comic or sold as a movie. (chuckles)

Read the entire interview here!

Steve was a busy man in demand at the Fangoria convention last week - here’s an interview with JoBlow.com that focuses on 30 Days of Night and the movie project Steve’s working on with Thomas Jane, Dark Country.

Did you incorporate elements from the other 30 DAYS OF NIGHT comics into the screenplay, or is it pretty much just the first one?

There’s some names, there are some different people that will show up, there’s stuff from DARK DAYS in there. The Kitka’s, who don’t show up until RETURN TO BARROW, they’re in it. It has Billy Kitka and his family in there…

The hardcore fans will pick up on these things…

Yeah. In that big oversized complete 30 DAYS OF NIGHT edition that IDW put out, I wrote the journal of a survivor who wasn’t part of Eben and Stella’s story, just someone who was hiding out in another house, who had murdered his family so the vampires wouldn’t get to them… They [the screenplay’s other writers Brian Nelson and Stuart Beattie] picked up his name and parts of his history and put it in the movie.

Read the full piece here!