Transmet movie not really happening.

[Freeky]

http://www.mania.com/warren-ellis-transmetropolitan_article_90650.html



And who is Tim Roth?

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

All my hopes and dreams lay shattered.
 

[Rumckle]

And who is Tim Roth?

He plays the main character in Lie to Me.

He was also in Reservoir Dogs, he was the guy he got shot in the stomach, and spends half the movie bleeding to death.

ETA: He's English I believe.

[E.O.T.]

DO YOU

          really wanna see a film version?

[Reeducation]

This is good news.

[Rumckle]

DO YOU

          really wanna see a film version?

If Ellis has creative control over it, definitely, especially if Roth plays Spider, I think he'd be great for the part.

[Cain]

And who is Tim Roth?

He plays the main character in Lie to Me.

He was also in Reservoir Dogs, he was the guy he got shot in the stomach, and spends half the movie bleeding to death.

ETA: He's English I believe.

He's so English he almost sounds like a parody of Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

[Richter]

Rejoice, you DON'T have to see yet another famous work of subversive comics manhandled and mashed into a 180 minute cowtow to reviews and opening day profits.  You do NOT have to see Spider Jerusalem T-shirts at walmart, or people wearing the glasses trying to rant, but only poorly mangling words in between repetitions of "fuck".  You do not have to see Warren Ellis's take on journalism becoem a fad.

ANY good graphic novel of appreciable lenght and content should not be allowed to be touched by Hollywood.  At most, BBC miniseries.  I may be proven wrong, but I've seen BBC productions that have abandoned "Good filmmaking", as the modern movie industry describes, like a flaming semi trailer full of bovine feces when it involves staying accurate to the book.

[Cramulus]

yes REJOICE!

also rejoice that Gaiman is holding onto Sandman until "it can be done right"

if they made these into movies and fucked it up, it would be like knowing you're about to get sucker punched but not being able to brace yourself

[LMNO]

Remember the issue of TRANSMET when they co-oped Spider's image?


Do you really want that happening IRL?


Yeah.  Thought not.

[Cain]

I don't think the BBC would touch such a project - the Tories are looking for excuses to cut them down to size and "moral guardians" like the Daily Mail are enthusiastic supporters of the cause.

Now, HBO, with their love of sex, swearing and over the top violence, on the other hand...

[Richter]

yes REJOICE!

also rejoice that Gaiman is holding onto Sandman until "it can be done right"

if they made these into movies and fucked it up, it would be like knowing you're about to get sucker punched but not being able to brace yourself

I read the script for the Sandman movie they wanted to make a few years back.  Odd mashup of the first two volumes of the comics.  Not that is was BAD, it was just compact, hurried.  If you go to the movies to see a 2 hour spew of "OHmygoodnesswhat happened!?" and walk away with a trainwreck afterglow (like most movies attempt), then that's fine.  Giving Gaiman's well paced storytelling that treatment though isn't the way to do it.

[LMNO]

TBH, the quest for Morpheus to regain his tools and authority is probably the easiest to make into a movie... Although the fact that he has to descend into Hell before he meets the Big Boss, who turns out to be a deranged minor DC universe villian, is an odd story arc.

[Richter]

It was an odd, early attempt to tie "Sandman" into DC at large.  I almost liked the script ditching him in favor of expanding the Corinthian's role.  They did super hero cameo again off and on, but never obtrusively.  Need to check my sources, but the character of Destiny may have actually been in DC pre-Gaiman.   

I don't think the BBC would touch such a project - the Tories are looking for excuses to cut them down to size and "moral guardians" like the Daily Mail are enthusiastic supporters of the cause.

Now, HBO, with their love of sex, swearing and over the top violence, on the other hand...

Perfect.  They'd string it out as long as possible too.

Maybe I should have specified the miniseries be done by the shoddily reanimated staff of the BBC from the 80's.  If the BBC is concered with morality right now, then Garth Nix's "Sabriel" might be more their speed.

[LMNO]

It was an odd, early attempt to tie "Sandman" into DC at large.  I almost liked the script ditching him in favor of expanding the Corinthian's role.  They did super hero cameo again off and on, but never obtrusively.  Need to check my sources, but the character of Destiny may have actually been in DC pre-Gaiman.   

I believe Destiny was a DC character.  IIR, Gaiman wanted to re-imagine a whole slew of old characters, and was told he could only use the has-beens.