http://www.mania.com/warren-ellis-transmetropolitan_article_90650.html
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And who is Tim Roth?
All my hopes and dreams lay shattered.
:x :argh!:
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on October 15, 2010, 05:06:42 AM
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.
DO YOU
really wanna see a film version?
This is good news.
Quote from: E.O.T. on October 15, 2010, 06:26:54 AM
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.
Quote from: Rumckle on October 15, 2010, 06:22:29 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on October 15, 2010, 05:06:42 AM
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.
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.
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
Remember the issue of TRANSMET when they co-oped Spider's image?
Do you really want that happening IRL?
Yeah. Thought not.
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...
Quote from: Cramulus on October 15, 2010, 01:21:28 PM
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: Cain on October 15, 2010, 01:36:00 PM
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.
Quote from: Richter on October 15, 2010, 01:50:38 PM
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.
Good. Maybe now the fucker will get back to finishing some of his series.
Captain Swing.
Doktor Sleepless.
SuperGod.
Fell.
and about 20 others.
This could only have worked as a series or animation anyway.
Same goes for the sandman.
Quote from: Richter on October 15, 2010, 01:50:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 15, 2010, 01:36:00 PM
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.
Yeah, the 80s were when the BBC weren't afraid to take risks or upset the government too much. Alasdair Milne wasn't afraid to push hard, I know some veteran BBC hands, like Adam Curtis, speak very highly of him still. Incidentally, Milne's son, Seamus, is a fairly good reporter.
But especially of late, they've been under a lot of pressure to scale down their services, appeal to the masses and their hyporcritical sense of morality at all times, and produce middlebrow, reality TV style entertainment.
Prophecy: if a transmet movie is made, by anyone, it will be comparable to a sci-fi "Crank".
I believe this because it is the opposite of what I want to believe. And hollywood is involved.
Quote from: Sigmatic on October 15, 2010, 05:07:16 PM
Prophecy: if a transmet movie is made, by anyone, it will be comparable to a sci-fi "Crank".
I believe this because it is the opposite of what I want to believe. And hollywood is involved.
FUCK YUO MY GRANDMA DIED FROM WATCHING CRANK!
Would Spider Jerusalem be played by Jason Statham, in this theoretical film?
Quote from: Cain on October 15, 2010, 06:32:50 PM
Would Spider Jerusalem be played by Jason Statham, in this theoretical film?
:bomber:
I would kill a motherfucker.
MATT DAMON OR GTFO!
Quote from: Richter on October 15, 2010, 01:14:28 PM
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.
THIS
& thank you
AMC has good dramas, tho the prisoner seemed more like a sequel then a remake
Jerusalem would be played by Malkovich. End of discussion.
As long as it's done reasonably well (by reasonably well I'm talking Watchmen or LOTR) then I'll prolly enjoy it. Films of books will never do the original justice. Same goes for books of films. They're different mediums. Films are bubblegum, at least the good ones are. Deep, arty shit like fucking Fellini or Ingmar bastard Bergman is just pretentious, tedius gobshite and can go climb up it's own arsehole as far as I'm concerned. I like my books to stimulate my mind and my films to stimulate my eyeballs.