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fisher & sons · 12-05-2011, 03:13 PM

It's Jake from Freaky Friday!

DirtySexyMoney · 12-05-2011, 03:14 PM

Oh my god...that hair.

It looks ridiculous.

The rest of the promo looks good. Love all the Brooke & Julian bits, especially the ones with the babies.

AmeliaBeck · 12-05-2011, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by lonely sidewalk (View Post)

It's Jake from Freaky Friday!

Who knew he wound up in Tree Hill, right?!

So, cool news! There's this blogspot Chad tweeted that's ran by Kenzie, where some photos from each Everlast tour spot are posted: Follow The Nudge...

eta:

Young Hollywood did an interview with Chad. The interview hasn't been posted yet (it's a video), but:

"Ok @ChadMMurray fans who r waiting for the @Younghollywood interview, here's a pic to tie you over!!"

http://twitpic.com/7p3guq

He looks so effing perfect!

holding my heart · 12-06-2011, 04:15 AM

It's so good to finally have something to look forward

LeytonISlove · 12-06-2011, 08:33 AM

Oh I spot that wedding ring of Luke's in the promo!

TwilightPrincess · 12-07-2011, 12:42 PM

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AmeliaBeck · 12-07-2011, 02:27 PM

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5 Questions With Actor-Turned-Graphic Novelist Chad Michael Murray

We've seen actors branch out into all kinds of side careers, from rapping and banjoing to running an NFL franchise or a hamburger joint.

Chad Michael Murray – best known for making hearts throb on TV's "One Tree Hill" and movies like "House of Wax" and "A Cinderella Story" – now adds "graphic novelist" to his resume's job history with "Everlast," a dark but spiritual tale about a hard-edged "soul-saver" in the days leading up to the apocalypse.

We geeked out with the amicable Buffalo, New York, native at October's New York Comic-Con to cast the inevitable movie version.

So what inspired you to start writing graphic novels?
I can tell you that the story was inspired by a man who showed up on my doorstep, preaching about the end of the world, and he goes, "144,000 people are going to be let survive the End of Days. Do you want to be one of them?" And at that point I'm just like okay, I want to hear it. And it was really interesting. I heard this guy's story and then I just kind of swallowed this idea and I went inside my house, and I just kind of contemplated it for a long time and thought, "What if it was true?"

Out of that I created Derek (Everlast), a soldier whose job it is to find people who are destined to survive the End of Days. And I just saw this as the greatest platform to launch it. It's a really cool platform because you can do a little bit of everything with a little bit of ink. An incredible artist, obviously, can blow up your world for you, blow up a building instead of having to actually spend lots of production dollars, actually doing that, like some people.

So with a faith-based theme are you looking at a religious audience?
There's religious stuff, but I would say it's more of a spiritual journey. It's kind of about choice and your own decisions within your own self and faith. It's really about choice. We don't really define anything.

So many movies are inspired by graphic novels. Can you see this one playing out on the big screen?
I can because when I originally saw it, I saw it as a screenplay. I saw it as a film. I saw it as a really cool, vast world. I saw it as "Constantine" meets "The Crow." I can see the journey in this man, and I think it would be a really interesting tale to tell because he's a really flawed character, which is what I really love about him.

Let's play fantasy casting. Who do you want in the movie?
Fantasy cast. I would love to see ... I'll say it, why not? Fantasy cast? You've got Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, one of them as Derek. Brad Pitt as Stavros. Morgan Freeman as Hutch. See, the girl needs to be a little younger, but tough. The girl is the toughest casting. I see Natalie Portman, but she'd have to be blonde. I see like a Natalie Portman-esque style. That would be a dream cast.

And then of course you'd have to do the Stan Lee cameo.
I will do background work. Absolutely background work. Save some budget.

5 Questions With Actor-Turned-Graphic Novelist Chad Michael Murray | NextMovie

holding my heart · 12-08-2011, 01:33 AM

Thanks for posting!

AmeliaBeck · 12-08-2011, 07:26 PM

You're welcome

You can digitally buy Everlast for your iPhone or Android device here: Everlast on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and on the Web - comiXology

And you can order Everlast from Barnes and Noble online. It says it'll be in stores on December 13th: BARNES & NOBLE | Everlast by Chad Michael Murray, Archaia Entertainment | Hardcover

holding my heart · 12-09-2011, 01:47 AM

Sad I don't have a Iphone anymore

AmeliaBeck · 12-09-2011, 01:26 PM

Here's the Young Hollywood interview:

eta: new Chad interview -

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Chad Michael Murray ventures from Hollywood to 'Everlast'
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY Updated 1h 31m ago

Chad Michael Murray the TV and Movie Star is now Chad Michael Murray the Graphic Novelist.

A man is tasked with saving people before the End of Days in Chad Michael Murray's graphic novel 'Everlast.'

If there was any doubt, consider this: Sure, he's on the DVDs for several seasons of the TV drama One Tree Hill and movies such as House of Wax, but Murray doesn't have a strategy for checking those out in his local Best Buy. However, he does have one for discovering where his pre-apocalyptic Archaia graphic novel Everlast is located in bookstores.

"It's something you kind of have to do. You've got to move it around, you've got to give it more exposure. Flip over the other books and put that on top," Murray says, laughing.

In bookstores now, Everlast arrives in comic shops with its complex characters and big themes on Wednesday. Murray is also out on his book tour currently, with stops at San Francisco's Comix Experience on Sunday, Portland's Cosmic Monkey Comics on Tuesday and Seattle's Local Color on Wednesday.
Created by Murray, the world of Everlast revolves around Derek Everlast, a man who's tasked by a higher power to escort chosen people to an underground place called Haven before the End of Days. Some people are on "the list" to rebuild mankind following the oncoming event, some people aren't — and trying to get into Haven without an invitation doesn't work out too well for folks.

"The mythology really worked itself out sitting there and going, well, how do you choose?" Murray explains. "There was only going to be a certain amount of people left to give mankind a second chance. How would you choose? Would they be the genetically superior or the sin-free? Would it be somebody who was a professional in a particular field? How would they be chosen and would there be an age range?"
"I played with all those different options, and ultimately down the road you'll see the different things we get to play with and the people who will get to make it," he says.

Murray has big plans for this world, too. In fact, it's grown so vast that he's written two short prose stories featuring Everlast —Phoenix is included in the graphic novel and is available on Murray's website, as is Flight of the Cormorant. A treatment for a second graphic novel is done, he says, and now he's pondering a third.

Everlast all came out of one fateful day eight years when he was living in Wilmington, N.C., and filming One Tree Hill. A preacher rang his doorbell, and instead of shooing the man away, Murray listened to his speech when the actor was asked if he wanted to be one of the people who survived the end of the world.

Within a few hours after the strange man left, Murray had worked out the beginnings of his vision for Everlast.

"I had conceptualized and batted around a bunch of different ideas and saw this world. And the world wasn't too far off of our own," he says. "I kinda had inspiration with The Crow and Constantine. It has that vibe. It painted itself to me, really."

He was struck by the name "Everlast," too, and then started to flesh out what it would be like in a world that everybody is leaving.

"It would have to be the loneliness factor of really never being around anybody, not being able to love anybody," Murray says. "And then, well, what if you did? What if you fell in love with someone who wasn't on the list?"

"It's tough to streamline all that information into a small book and really get the audience caught up to, 'OK, here's the world, this is what's going on,' and to keep them in the ride. It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped it would be."

Murray also had to get up to speed on the graphic-novel format. He's been a writer since he was a kid, keeping a pad of paper next to his bed at night in case of random inspiration — and his One Tree Hill character, Lucas Scott, was also a novelist. Yet Murray himself was a neophyte to comics three years ago.

A lover of prose, Murray thought Everlast could function purely as a novel — since some human elements could get lost in translation — but he liked the freedom that a graphic novel would give him in building his landscape.

"In film, you have a budget and you say, 'OK, we can't really blow that up because we'll be over budget,'" Murray says. In comics, though, "it's just a little bit of ink on a page and — boom — you've just ended the world.

"It was literally the best way I saw to really paint this world and give an idea to everybody, 'all right, this is the way we see it.' This is the cool, really edgy element: the pre-apocalyptic tale of something that if you really anted to get into it, it's rooted in realism."

He had to get up to speed, though, so Murray enlisted the help of Caleb Monroe (The Remnant) to help with structure and scripting. "It's basically if you don't know how to tie your shoes: You're going to figure it out on your own, or someone's going to show you," Murray says.

The writer also worked with a team of different artists including Danijel Zezelj, Robbi Rodriguez, Andrew Huerta and J.K. Woodward for the graphic novel, as the artwork changes with shifting points of view among characters.

"That's ultimately what the biggest metaphor behind the books is. It's not as in-your-face as I could have made it, but it's really about choice," Murray says. "Spirituality is this big, broad thing and everybody sees everything different, everybody makes their own choices, and whatever choices you make to get you where you want to be, that's your own journey. That's your road."

Recently, Murray's own road has led him back to filming locations — he returns to One Tree Hill one final time for an episode this winter, and also stars in the upcoming horror flick The Haunting in Georgia— but also to comic-book conventions. He visited his first Comic-Con International in San Diego in July and unveiled Everlast in October at New York Comic Con.

"Everybody is so happy and there's not a mean person in the house," Murray says. "There's no negative energy. I love that."

He's still far better known as an actor, but the number of people who know him more from his writing — and can't wait to read more of his stuff — is growing, says Murray, who returns to his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., for a signing Dec. 28 at Barnes & Noble.

Who knows — his new comic fans might even be putting Everlast on the top of piles at their own bookstores.

"It's just something I love doing," Murray says of writing. "You sit there and you lie in bed at night, with this and that running through your head, and you've got so many ideas. I always thought, 'I'm sure everybody has the same ideas' but no one ever rolls over and writes them down."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/...=1l6u8jpd14y1z

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I put Chad's quotes in bold, but the entire article is a good read

break the window · 12-09-2011, 07:40 PM

thanks for posting, great interview

holding my heart · 12-10-2011, 02:48 AM

It is indeed a really good interview in a whole but I love Chad's parts! Thanks Amelia

smile16 · 12-11-2011, 03:09 PM

hi all!

i've been a long time fan of OTH and was able to get hold of scripts from season 3. 301-309 (309 autographed by bethany and james).

i'm now moving and don't have room for them in my new place. i'll miss them but it's time to let go

please EMAIL me at ckl16@hotmail.com if you're interested.

cathy

holding my heart · 12-12-2011, 02:39 AM

That's a nice initiative Kelly, thanks for sharing with us! Hope someone will come to you!

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