Sep 26, 2005 22:53
- Extracts from interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon. >> TIME.com
NG: I always loved, most of all with doing comics, the fact that I knew I was in the gutter. I kind of miss that, even these days, whenever people come up and inform me, oh, you do graphic novels. No. I wrote comic books, for heaven's sake. They're creepy and I was down in the gutter and you despised me. 'No, no, we love you! We want to give you awards! You write graphic novels!' We like it here in the gutter!
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JW: I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, the kids love this! But even executives and producers and people who aren't necessarily creative who are involved in it did actually grow up with these characters, so there is some measure of respect. Although we still occasionally get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and you really can't explain that.
NG: Or Cat Woman.
JW: Oh my God.
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JW: In my head, it's [Wonder Woman] the finest film ever not typed yet. It's incredible fun, partially because I was never actually a huge fan. I never really felt there was . . . there's been some great work, but never one definitive run on the book for her, and I'm not a fan of the show. I feel like I'm taking an icon I already know and creating it for the first time.
NG: She's such a character without a definitive story. Or even without a definitive version.
JW: That's how I feel. I hope to change that because I really feel her. Let's face it: She's an Amazon, and she will not be denied.
TIME: I'm really hoping her bustier will slip down a little bit further than it did in the show.
JW: You're just after a porno, aren't you?
TIME: Yes.
JW: It's all about priorities. Yes, it's very empowering for her to be naked all the time.
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JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.
NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.
JW: There's really no better way to put it.
- Bloodrayne
Okay. Let's not kid ourselves: this Kristanna Loken (the Terminatrix in Terminator 3) headed vampire flick will suck, majorly. But that doesn't discount the fact that it has a pretty cast. Did I mention it had vampires? And unknown but vaguely cute actors wielding swords? and Michelle Rodriguez in a leather corset? Pictures at >> Dark Horizon
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- The Flock
Interesting new project for the week: this upcoming feature will be director Andrew (Wai Keung) Lau's (Infernal Affairs) first English-language film. Now Japanese director Hideo Nakata tried something similar, with The Ring Two, and that was a terrible movie, but I'm going to let Lau have the benefit of the doubt. For now.
For one thing, it has a respectable cast lined up: Claire Danes, Radha Mitchell, and Richard Gere. The synopsis is also pretty interesting: Gere stars as Errol Babbage, a public safety department employee whose job it is to monitor a "flock" of registered sex offenders. When he's forced into early retirement, he's given 18 days to train young Allison Laurie (Danes), who seriously disproves of Babbage's methods and generally thinks he's a douchebag. When a woman is kidnapped possibly by one of the "flock" they're assigned to monitor, though, all douchebaggery is put aside as they have to work together to find the missing woman.
>> JoBlo.com
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