(Well, that and threatening to give people detention/giving stickers to the good kids.)
Not to mention threatening them with stinkfoot, missy.
PS, come to Seattle. We promise not to cage you unless asked. Anyhow, it's not like Pete will actually LET Jilli have an arc welder...
I think movies should take their cue from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut and make all the baddies Canadian. Also, they should all be shirtless, and played by Paul Gross and/or CKR. Or Nicholas Lea.
Or what's his face, from ENG. Can he pull off shirtless? Hmm. Well, he can be clothed.
(Welcome to "Plei had coffee at 11:30 and is now officially loopy as hell.")
...I've actually been looking at the cost of flights to Seattle. Um. Just out of curiosity, you know?
Um.
Mirrormask clip.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something that makes me think that Jilli is going to enjoy this movie.
This comic combines two recent topics of conversation: Batman and zombies. Enjoy.
Mirrormask looks creee--py. In a good way. Does Dave McKean do Gaiman's book covers?
ETA: What's the music in the trailer? Anyone know?
nodnodnod
McKean and Gaiman have been working together forever, on
Sandman
and assorted other titles. McKean also did the illustrations for
Coraline, Wolves in the Walls
and
The Day I swapped my Dad For Two Goldfish.
I assumed so. The movie looks just like the art on everything Gaiman.
Does Dave McKean do Gaiman's book covers?
Run, don't walk, and get a copy of Dave McKean's Cages. About 450 pages of super-wonderful stuff.
Speaking of Neil, anyone want to read the script treatment for "Sandman" written nine years ago?
[link]
Roger Avary, who co-wrote the new Beowulf with Neil after this, was set to direct. The script's an amusing read for a while but starts to get bad fast. It's a collage of bits from the first four Sandman collections, with much of the dialogue quoted verbatim. The overall story is interestingly-adapted (I'd have said well-adapted but for the dropoff in quality in the third act) but the actual working parts need more than a polish to function properly. Mostly it feels like the writers just really wanted to incorporate as much of the Sandman 'verse as possible, without concern for whether it was useful for the story to do so. Very glad this script didn't get filmed.
