With Netflix's Cursed, Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler reimagine King Arthur's story through Lady of the Lake's eyes

Cursed creators talk about reimagining such a well-known story for a modern audience, and about the thrills of bringing their book to life on screen. Wheeler, a writer and producer perhaps best known for the Puss in Boots screenplay, was a self-described “lifelong Frank Miller fan” when the two were introduced several years ago. “I’d been enraptured with the King Arthur story since I was a boy, when I saw Disney’s Sword in the Stone," Miller said in a three-way Zoom interview with Wheeler this month. “I certainly had a fan’s desire to see what Frank would do with his aesthetic and storytelling in that world.” Wheeler wrote, and Miller illustrated; the book was published last fall, by which time Netflix had already picked it up. When scenes would go wrong, you’d have moments where you’d say, “I think we’re getting into Holy Grail territory.” Miller: We still haven’t done a Bring Out Your Dead scene.