Alejandro Jodorowsky on SANTA SANGRE from Severin Films on Vimeo.
Ajelandro Jodorowsky talks about Santa Sangre in anticipation of the films re-release on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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The official Vertigo blog reports that Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly will return to print in a collected volume this fall, along with some unspecified bonus material.
Update: You can buy it here.
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Who knows if this will ever make it out of production hell:
As readers of Dodgem Logic #2 will know, photographer Mitch Jenkins took a striking series of portraits of performers at a Northampton burlesque review. He decided to film a 10-minute short featuring the dancers for his showreel and, wanting to help out a friend, Moore offered to write a shooting script. It was called “Jimmy’s End”.
As soon as word got out that Moore was writing something for film, people quickly got interested. Jenkins and Moore were approached by Warp Films (producers of Shane Meadows’ This is England and Chris Morris’ Four Lions), who offered to fund a feature version of the film.
These discussions grew to accommodate the idea of spinning off a Channel 4 series from the film, in the manner of This is England ’86. Moore said that initially he’d been dubious about how the story could be extended in this way but had now figured out a longer ongoing narrative.
Bleeding Cool: Jimmy’s End – Alan Moore’s New Feature Film And Spin Off TV Series
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Ken Keeler, the Futurama writer behind the theorem, actually has a PhD in math, so this was probably just a walk in the park for him. But for the rest of us non math geniuses, his theorem was used to explain a problem with an invention that let characters switch bodies. In the show, you can only switch bodies once with the same pair of people, so they needed an equation to prove that with enough switching bodies around, everyone will eventually end up as who they really are. Insert: funny jokes, robot humor and black comedy and mix accordingly.
Gizmodo: Futurama Writer Invented A New Math Theorem Just To Use In The Show
Now this is an interesting story. At the Sarasota Film Festival last week, Steve Buscemi lead a live stage reading of the script for his new project Queer, written by The Messenger director Oren Moverman based on the William S. Burroughs novel. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (via The Playlist) attended the event and provides a recap of the night. Apparently Buscemi is to direct the film, his fifth feature, and brought Stanley Tucci, Ben Foster, John Ventimiglia (The Funeral) and Lisa Joyce (The Messenger) in to read the script for the audience, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cast in this, although he’ll probably consider them.
First Showing: Steve Buscemi Helming Oren Moverman’s Adaptation of ‘Queer’
As for the current status of the project, Morrison said it’s in a holding pattern at the moment, though Stevenson is still attached and he receives occasional updates as it makes its way around Hollywood.
“It’s just around and about, you know?” he said. “John Stevenson still wants to be involved, but nothing’s moving on it right now.”
“I hope we see some movement on it,” he added. “I hear about it every couple of weeks. [Producer] Don Murphy calls me up and fills me in on the very slow progress of the thing.”
MTV: Grant Morrison Says His ‘We3’ Screenplay Has Less Violence, But It’s ‘Better Than The Comic’
Nancy Mattoon writes on the similarities and differences between William S. Burroughs and the fictional character Don Draper from AMC’s Mad Men:
Insiders wanting out, outsiders wanting in. Flamboyantly embracing the outlaw life, desperately seeking status. Life on the junk, life selling junk. Creating a nightmarish truth, concocting a glamorous lie. Writing to save your soul, selling your soul to write. Spectacularly surrendering to the siren song of smack, self-medicating with scotch and soda to maintain the social surface. The psychotic outlaw-addict and the man in the gray flannel suit. Both hell bent on that great American pastime: reinvention. But the artistry of the addict betrays the poetry in his soul. And the Marlboro Man has a cancer at his core. Neither Burroughs/Lee nor Don Draper can escape the one thing they’re trying to outrun: themselves. As William Faulkner put it,”the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past.” Or to quote Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
I’m obviously a little behind on my comics news – Grant Morrison’s been writing a creator owner Vertigo series that’s been publishing since January.
Morrison: It’s ‘Home Alone meets The Lord of the Rings’. ‘Joe’ is a big fantasy story, but I kind of wanted to reinvent the fantasy genre as we’re familiar with it and do something that felt more believable, modern and convincing to me. I looked at things like Narnia and Lewis Carroll, stories where some kid goes through the mirror or down the staircase into a weird world and although I loved that stuff when I was growing up, and lot of my favorite books and movies were based on that sort of idea – Elidor. The Phantom Tollbooth. Yellow Submarine. Peter Pan. The Wizard of Oz – I kind of wanted to do something that was, to me at least, an original take on that kind of story. What would be the 21st century, post-9/11 version of the quest through the Otherworld?
You know, Alice in Wonderland was written for Victorian kids who swept chimneys or lived in cruel orphanages! I wanted to write a book for and about kids today, incorporating all the feelings of loss, and the heavy, traumatic atmosphere of a culture in the midst of a distant war. In Joe the Barbarian the fantasy kingdom has fallen to darkness and Death and all its great heroes have been killed or otherwise neutralized. Can a diabetic boy and his ragtag gang of warrior rats, giant dwarves and ADD inventors save a world where Death has been crowned King?
That’s the big answer, but it’s really this wild fantasy story about a kid who’s dying, and he has twenty minutes to get downstairs and save his own life. And in that twenty minutes, he experiences an entire fantasy epic adventure based around the contents of his house.
Paul McGuigan, director of Gangster No 1, Lucky Number Slevin and the upcoming Sherlock Holmes TV series by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, has confirmed for LiveForFilms that he will be indeed working on a new TV series for BBC Scotland, written by Grant Morrison and starring polymath Stephen Fry. Bleeding Cool reported on this possibility previously, and McGuigan says that currently Morrison has written a treatment.
Read More – Bleeding Cool: Paul McGuigan, Grant Morrison, Stephen Fry In New BBC Thriller
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Update: This was to be called Bonnyroad, but this project has been “knocked back.”
There may be another short video game ad before the actual Heavy Rain mall scene trailer:
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