together during saint Lawrence's night, watching shooting stars and talking about life and death. English actor Rupert Everett, who inspired Dylan Dog's design, played the protagonist, Francesco Dellamorte, while Italian model and actress Anna Falchi played the female lead. Although having Everett in the main role, the Dylan Dog character did not appear in the movie. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night Kevin Munroe has directed Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, an official American film adaptation of Dylan Dog starring actor Brandon Routh as the title character. Differences between the comic result in the film being set in New Orleans instead of London, the character of Groucho being replaced by an un-dead sidekick called Marcus due to issues for the production to acquire the rights to use the Groucho Marx name and style, another difference is Dylan Dog's Volkswagen Beetle being black with a white hood instead of the opposite like in the comic. The film also appears to be much lighter in tone and more action-oriented, lacking the surreal feeling, the black humour and the melancholy of the comic book, and the Dylan character is portrayed like more of a scientist-adventurer in the vein of Indiana Jones, rather than the romantic loner he is in the comics. It was originally going to premiere on Halloween 2010 in Italy but was since pushed back to a 29 April 2011 release. The film has been produced by the independent company Platinum Studios. Television series A television series based on the comics, produced by James Wan, was announced on 7 October 2019. See also Dylan Dog Books out of series References External links Bonelli Comics Dark Horse Info Dylan Dog Special Website Dylan Dog on TexBR Tiziano Sclavi/Dylan Dog-Portrait Dylan Dog, Spanish edition Dylan Dog Italian edition Dylan Dog Website Swedish publisher Ades Media List of every Italian issue on comicvine List of every issue in the Dark Horse miniseries on comicvine "Dylan Dog: Zed" one-shot on comicvine List of every Hungarian issue on kepregenydb.hu Dylan Dog Parody Italian edition Comic book publishing companies of Italy Italian comics Italian comics characters Comics characters introduced in 1986 Fictional occult and psychic detectives Occult detective fiction Detective comics Fantasy comics Italian comics adapted into films Comics adapted into video games Comics set in London