‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville
‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix https://t.co/zKSYPV2uim
- Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) July 20, 2024
- Keanu wrote a novel, with author China Miéville (Embassytown, Hellblazer comics and nonfiction);
- It's called The Book of Elsewhere and is follows an immortal warrior on a millennia-long journey to understand his immortality (honestly, Keanu). "I didn’t want to do a vampire story - you know, kind of fatigued and immortal," he says, before adopting a languid upper-class British accent. "‘I’m so tired. I’m so tired of life and drinking blaahd ... ’ I didn’t want him to be a werewolf, like when the moon came out ... I wanted something else.";
- Reeves was already a fan of Miéville’s work - he had optioned one of the writer’s short stories some years back - and when the publishers of Reeves’s comic-book series, BRZRKR, suggested a novel, “they asked me what would be my dream for who to write the novel? And I was, like: China Miéville.”
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