Alexis Nolent (a.k.a. Matz) is a French writer. He
writes scripts for video games and has also written a novel and, under the pen name Matz, a number of comics.
Life and career
Nolent was born in
Rouen, France, and grew up in the Caribbean, before moving to
Paris.[1]
His graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete, AKA Headshot, was adapted into the 2012 film Bullet to the Head.[2] He has written The Killer (Le Tueur) and Cyclops (Cyclopes) both of which have been optioned for films, also by producer
Alexandra Milchan, the former at
Paramount with director
David Fincher[3] and the latter at
Warner Brothers by
James Mangold.[4]The Killer is his first to be published in English and is published by
Archaia Studios Press,[5] who are dividing each of volumes into two parts and releasing in American comic book format bi-monthly. The first four issues were collected as a hardcover volume, which won
IGN's Best Indy Book of 2007 Award,[6]Newsarama's Best of '07 gave it the "Best Comic You Didn't Read This Year" award[7] and Entertainment Weekly named it #2 in a list of Best comics of 2007.[8]