Guggenheim to expand Stephen King's 'N'

Writer Marc Guggenheim will expand on the events of Stephen King's short story N with a four-issue miniseries.

Published by Marvel, the comic book will bring new elements to the story, which was originally released as part of King's Just After Sunset collection. Artwork on the book is provided by Alex Maleev.

Guggenheim and Maleev previously adapted N for Marvel in motion comic format. The creative team have re-engineered the project - which was issued as 25 video shorts - for its print release.

"It's not a direct translation. I had expected it to be, but once I started scripting the comic, I quickly realised that I had to reinvent the wheel," Guggenheim told Newsarama. "That was the only way to do justice to the source material.

"I had tried to utilise as much of Alex Maleev's original mobisode series art as possible, but trooper that he is, Alex ended up taking a similar approach and redrawing a lot of elements. So as far as the basic story told by the motion comic is concerned, we basically re-engineered everything, art and story, from the ground up."

He added: "Four issues gave us more room to put back some elements from Stephen King's story that I had to excise for time/space when adapting it for the mobisode series. A lot more of his original writing is present in the comic adaptation."

N is slated for release on March 3.