Every single Gaiman fan needs to read.

[bzarcher]

New Line to make "Death" movie based on Gaiman property, Gaiman in talks to direct.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

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[avylin.livejournal.com]

*starts running laps* Wheee!

Although I enjoyed Death: the Time of Your Life more.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Obviously this will be the sequel!

Wheeeeeeee!

[annotated_em]

[dies]

Deaddeaddeaddead.

Phantom and Death?

My life is complete.

[dies again]

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm not nearly as excited about Phantom because of Joel Schumacher's involvement. (See www.queenofwands.net from a few days ago for my nightmare scenario.) Plus, someone I'm not really on that great a terms with anymore is kinda twisted around Phantom in my mind like rather nasty and poisonous barbed wire.

However.

Gaiman! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[annotated_em]

Well, I don't expect it to be a GREAT movie, but! I expect to be awed by the sheer excess of it all. So there. ^____^

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

If the phantom ends up with Bat-nipples, I'm just gonna giggle all night. :D

Hope it's good for you, tho.

[cair-anam.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!


Now I'm just worried about casting. lol.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Personal preferences:

1) The girl who played Door in the BBC Neverwhere. She's about the right age and would look perfect.
2) Kiera Knightley if they want someone older.
3) naufiel.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

AH!

Here's a page on the girl who played Door. She's older than I thought, but I think she'd still be a good fit

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

That is a good choice.

But on top of that, Gaiman directing. Bloody effing brilliant.

Wow. We can only hope.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Let's just say I'm cautiously optomistic, though obviously Laura Fisher as Death is just my own pipe dream.

[cair-anam.livejournal.com]

She'd be great, visually at least.

The idea of Gaiman directing sends cold shivers down my spine.

He's coming here in October! /bounces

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

October?

Excellent!

That gives me 3 months to wear your skin and take your place, after eating your brainmeats to gain your powers...

[cair-anam.livejournal.com]

You wish =P

I would like to note that I previously invited you and several other people to his visitation, though the date is still not set.

So you'd get Gaiman AND the pleasure of my company!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Good point.

Besides, I'm sure I'd look ghastly in pastels.

[degraine.livejournal.com]

Hey. HEY. What about Mort?

WHERE THE HELL IS THE LOVE FOR MORT?!?!

*froth*

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

You mean all those Discworld animated movies where he's voiced by Christopher "I beat the fuck out of Nazis and then I whupped Rohan" Lee?

[degraine.livejournal.com]

That was probably the animated series. I haven't seen that, although I admit Christopher Lee would make the perfect voice for Death.

What I meant was, there were plans for a movie based on Mort. Got bogged down because the Americans in the consortium that was going to fund it did some polls and...hang on, let me see if I can find the quote.

"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.

Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."

"The person also said that Americans "weren't ready for the treatment of Death as an amusing and sympathetic character". This was about 18 months/2 years before Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey."

"Currently, since the amount of money available for making movies in Europe is about sixpence, the consortium is looking for some more intelligent Americans in the film business. This may prove difficult.

It could have been worse. I've heard what Good Omens was looking like by the time Sovereign's option mercifully ran out -- set in America, no Four Horsemen... oh god."

"What you have to remember is that in the movies there are two types of people 1) the directors, artists, actors and so on who have to do things and are often quite human and 2) the other lifeforms. Unfortunately you have to deal with the other lifeforms first. It is impossible to exaggerate their baleful stupidity."

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

To this I can only answer: Give it time.

[degraine.livejournal.com]

This is true. Frankly, I'd like to see the City Watch in a movie, since they're my favourite subseries, and there's some awesome material there.

[windsinger.livejournal.com]

Wheeee, it sounds awesome. *loves on Gaiman*

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Wheee!

[faire-damsel.livejournal.com]

*Squeeeeee!* This Is SO Exciting! *G*

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! *bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce!* EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

*purrr* ^^