Chad Michael Murray’s filming “Renee,” the new drama about Rene Yohe

Chad Michael Murray’s been in town this month, filming “Renee,” the new drama about Rene Yohe. He plays Jamie Tworkowski, founder of “To Write Love on Her Arms,” and “I picked up some of his mannerisms, but I didn’t want to imitate him, any more than Kat (Dennings) is doing the ‘real’ Renee,” Murray (left, with the real Jamie) says.

Murray said he’s playing the role “from a place of love, which is how I think Jamie thinks of Renee — this love of this captivating person that drove him to try and help her.”

I asked him to update his long-announced introduction to the world of graphic novels, “Everlast,” which has been in the works “for seven years.

“It’s been a seven year labor of love. It’s beautiful. Our colorists are finishing it up right now. Very dark. Archaia Comics is publishing it and we’ve got an Eisner Award winning artist (Daniel Zuzega, I think he said, but i can’t find his name on the Eisner award lists. Anybody know this artist?).

“144,000 people are going to be taken when the world ends to rebuild the planet Earth. There is one man sent to rescue them yet each day when he wakes up, he doesn’t know who you are. This is his story.”

“It’s a book of choice. Apocalyptic, about looking in yourself. And it’s about the loneliest man in the world. The first chapter is this dark world, then it gets a little more lighthearted.We go into the perspective, see this world through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl.”

“I’ve become a fan of graphic novels. I never was before, but it’s so freeing. It’s a great way to tell a story. The guys we’re working with producing it are so open and so out there.