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Camden New Journal - by SARA NEWMAN
Published: 20 September 2007

David Bircham on his stall at Camden Market Hall.

Hollywood beckons for market trader

A GRAPHIC novel created by a market trader is to be turned into a $35 million Hollywood feature film next year.
David Bircham has been selling action thriller comic, Brodie’s Law, at Camden Market Hall for a year an half.
He and his business partner Daley Osiyemi, a co-designer of the graphic novel, are to fly to Los Angeles next month to meet director Renny Harlin, whose films include Long Kiss Goodnight and Die Hard 2, and producers and writers at Darclight Films, which agreed to finance the movie earlier this year.
Mr Bircham said: “It’s a Hollywood production. American money making a Great British bonanza. I am most excited about seeing it at the cinema. It’s going to be amazing. I want top British talent working on Brodie’s Law.”
In the graphic novel, set in London’s underworld, career criminal Jack Brodie is commissioned to steal a ground-breaking formula from a major pharmaceutical company but he soon discovers he has been double crossed, his ex-wife murdered and his son kidnapped.
Mr Bircham said he chose to sell his novel in Camden because of its reputation as a hub of alternative culture. “The people who work and live in Camden are very bohemian,” he added.

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