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David Dastmalchian Conquered the Comic Book World On Screen, Now He’s Writing His Own

The busy actor has eight books coming out in the next year or so, including 'Creature Commandos' for DC, the original tale 'Knights vs. Samurai' for Image, plus a few secret projects.

He is best known as the prolific character actor who has jumped between Marvel and DC in movies like The Dark Knight and Ant-Man, and who has worked multiple times with directors such as Denis Villeneuve and Christopher Nolan. The duo are also writing an entry in the Dark Horse Horror special the Headless Horseman, a tale he describes as a tribute to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Dastmalchian wrote much of his work during downtime on movie and TV sets, and he hopes to see them translated for other mediums some day: “I dream of projects like Knights vs. Samurai, Count Crowley, and so many others that are finding their form on the page of comics, eventually taking shape in film, television, gaming, or other spaces that we haven’t even known or coming yet.”

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