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

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

Date: 2004-07-23 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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."

Date: 2004-07-23 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
To this I can only answer: Give it time.

Date: 2004-07-23 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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