The legacy of Paddington Bear began in 1958 with creator and author Michael Bond. Bond wrote the first book after he noticed a teddy bear all by itself in a store near Paddington station in London, the eventual namesake of the bear. In the story, Paddington is found in the station after traveling from ‘darkest Peru’ with a note pinned to his jacket that says, ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’ He is taken in by the Brown family and proceeds to have adventures around the London.
Since the creation of Paddington, he has spawned over twenty books, a television show and toy bears in his image, along with other merchandise. Now, coming in 2014 there will be a movie produced by David Heyman of Harry Potter fame.
There has been talk of the project since 2007, with Hamish McColl writing the script for the live-action film that will feature a CGI Paddington. Finally, this week we got the first look:
The character of Judge Dredd was created in 1977 for 2000 AD, a British science fiction anthology. Creators John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra placed him in a futuristic world where ‘judges’ were given all the powers to judge, sentence and execute law breakers.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, published in 2004, won the Literary Fiction Award at the British Book Awards and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award. It tells six interconnected stories that range from the 1850s on a Pacific Ocean voyage to current day Britain to futuristic, post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Each story is nested into the next through an observer or reader and left unresolved until the end.
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Along with a press release announcing the beginning of production on the 2014 film, 
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